It is widely known that upon contact with new civilization, the indigionous people can be wiped out because they are not immune to our sicknesses; wouldn’t they also have some illness that europeans aren’t immune to?
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The most dangerous diseases are usually a result of jumping species. This usually only happens when humans are in prolonged contact with that species, such as domesticated animals (swine flu, bird flu, etc)
The indigenous people in the America’s hadn’t domesticated anything other than llamas in South America, so there wasn’t much of an opportunity for anything to jump species, whereas Europeans had pigs, cows, horses, chickens, ducks, etc to give things like small pox and the flu.
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