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The Australian Aborigines were badly affected by numerous diseases, some of which were harmless to the Europeans, but fatal to the indigenous Australians. Some of these diseases included:

  • measles
  • German measles
  • smallpox
  • influenza
  • whooping cough
  • scarlet fever
  • tuberculosis
  • venereal disease
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