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It's common knowledge that European diseases destroyed the Native American population. But were there any Native American diseases that the Europeans didn't have immunities to? And why weren't the Europeans as hurt as by those diseases as the Native Americans were theirs?

by /u/IAmTotallyNotSatan in /r/AskHistorians

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