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When the Europeans came to the New World, they had a natural, built up immunity to small pox. However, the Indigenous peoples of North and South America did not. Small pox wiped out the vast majority of the Inca Empire.

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The most devastating disease to the Incas was the smallpox and is estimated to have claimed 60-90% of the Inca population. They were also ravaged by typhus, influenza, diphtheria and measles.

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