How did remote places in Asia and Africa not succumb to the same wave of disease and death that the Native Americans did?

Question

I’m not saying they weren’t affected at all, but something like 90% of Native Americans were wiped out while places like Japan and deep parts of the African interior didn’t suffer nearly as hard, even though they previously had basically no contact with Europe.

In: 1583

Answer 1

Some partially good answers in here, but I think one thing that is getting overlooked is that Europeans came to the New World with colonization on their minds, and one of the methods they used was biological warfare by speading smallpox to the Indigenous population.

Indigenous people weren’t dying because white people brought cold and flu season with them, but because of a very detailed plan to infect them with a highly transmissable and deadly disease.