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TIL that it wasn’t just Smallpox that was unintentionally introduced to the Americas, but also bubonic plague, measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, cholera, diphtheria, typhus, malaria, leprosy, and yellow fever. Indigenous Americans had no immunity to any of these diseases.

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