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?
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European settlers usually brought their own livestock, to which over millennia they have gotten accustomed to their diseases. Due to unfortunate wildlife indigenous peoples had not much life stock to tame and breed. So there was comparatively less disease risk to those settlers.
Still a lot of settlers died to the diseases that **were** there.
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