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Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 by dleslie on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:41PM (#28935223)
> Wouldn't native people also have diseases to share?

Not all diseases are equally harmful, right? Perhaps the indigenous populations of the Americas simply lacked a disease as deadly as those brought by the Europeans.

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Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 by handrous on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:12PM (#28937475)
IIRC a lot of Eurasian diseases were a result of long-term close contact with domesticated animals. Guess which side of the Atlantic didn't really have domesticated animals....
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