eli5: Why Weren’t European Colonizers As Impacted By New World Diseases as The Natives were by European Diseases?

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eli5: Why Weren’t European Colonizers As Impacted By New World Diseases as The Natives were by European Diseases?

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Answer 1

As others have said the new world didn’t have many disease reservoirs that could affect the colonists. However, in West Africa, so many Europeans died of disease that the region was once referred to as “The White Man’s Grave”