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70% - 90% of Native American deaths after 1492 were caused by disease brought over from Europe. At the time, was there anything that Europeans could have done as far as prevention and treatment? Or was this an inevitable effects of the New and old World becoming aware of each other?

by /u/TueuEnSerie in /r/AskHistorians

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