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It’s generally agreed that disease’s introduced by Europeans had a massive effect on the Native Americans. However several hundred years earlier the Vikings made contact with the Natives during their settlement attempts. Why didn’t any diseases transfer between these groups the way they did later?

by /u/UndyingCorn in /r/AskHistorians

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