I have frequently heard about how smallpox devastated the new world’s indigenous populations during the beginning of colonization because they had no natural immunity. What I don’t understand is how did the reverse not happen. I naively assume indigenous diseases would impact Europeans and probably be brought back to Europe but I have never read of this happening.
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Less diseases, no large scale animal domestication leads to the viruses that we know today, not being present in North America. Most of the viruses besides smallpox came from animals.
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