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Old 05-09-2006, 03:40 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Native American Diseases? Give me a history lesson :)

I know how Small Pox and other european diseases wrecked havoc on the Aztecs, Incas, and many others. I'm wondering though, Are there any diseases that europeans contracted from the Native Americans? I've never heard of anything they had but I always figured there was somethings that they had that europeans didn't at the time. Obviously it wasn't as devastating as Small Pox or I would have heard about it. What about Influenza in Native American history. Did they have it before, or did they contract it from the europeans?

I googled this with little luck. There's just so many irrelevent results to dig through. I found a few things but nothing I didn't already know.. I just haven't used the right search keywords I guess

Wikipedia did help with the small pox history but that just told me what I already knew.
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