Why didn’t settlers die of disease?

Question

We often hear indigenous peoples died from disease introduced by European settlers in North and South America. If indigenous peoples there were susceptible to eradication by unfamiliar disease why is the same not true of disease and death to settlers? Or is it true but more easily overcome?

In: Biology

Answer 1

They did. Part of the impetus for the acceleration of the slave trade was to keep profitable plantations running in the face of a high death rate among workers.