ELi5: Why didn’t europeans die too upon contact with new civilization?

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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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I am not sure but the deadliest disease that infected the conquistadors came to be called the French disease, or what we call syphilis.

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