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

Many settlers did die of disease. But settlers from Europe often had at least some immunity to the diseases which wiped out many indigenous North and South American populations.