How did European diseases affect the Americas?
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Europeans carried a hidden enemy to the Indians: new diseases. ... Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians. Europeans were used to these diseases, but Indian people had no resistance to them. Sometimes the illnesses spread through direct contact with colonists.
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Europeans carried a hidden enemy to the Indians: new diseases. ... Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians. Europeans were used to these diseases, but Indian people had no resistance to them. Sometimes the illnesses spread through direct contact with colonists.
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