Diseases

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The diseases that the Indians faced were from Europe. One of them was smallpox. Smallpox is when you get pus-filled bumps all over your skin. The Native Americans had no immunity so they almost never survived it. One of the diseases the Europeans had no immunity to was syphilis. Syphilis is when germs attack the heart and brain. The Europeans had no immunity to this so they died from this.

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