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Did people coming in get any diseases from the Indians?? Are we saying the Indians had no diseases at all???

Just the clap.

The Americas were lacking in large domesticable beasts.

According to Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel, 1997), since the europeans domesticated and lived with horses, pigs, sheep, chickens, geese, ducks, ox and cows they traded zoonotic diseases back and forth, and the survivors had genes to resist any number of diseases.

By the time settlers arrived in what would become America, something like 90% of the people here were already dead.

Dead of the diseases that to europeans were minor annoyances.

'If this is small pox, what must the great pox be like?' an Aztec is said to have wondered...

[PeterPrinciple]

‘If this is small pox, what must the great pox be like?’ an Aztec is said to have wondered...

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In 1530, the pastoral name “syphilis” (the name of a character) was first used by the Italian physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro as the title of his Latin poem in dactylic hexameter describing the ravages of the disease in Italy.[59][60] It was also called the “Great Pox”.[61][62]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#Etymology

[BenLurkin]

"what must the Great Pox be like?"

This...…..