eli5: Why Weren’t European Colonizers As Impacted By New World Diseases as The Natives were by European Diseases?
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u/Pseudo_Sponge I really recommend you read Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. It covers (among many other fascinating things) this question and is a great read.
The short answer is that the new world had not domesticated the same animals as the Europeans.
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