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Many of native Americans were killed by the diseases brought by Europeans. For 1000s of years, Eurasians and Africans were exposed to many dangerous diseases through contact with domesticated animals, such as pigs and chickens. Therefore, their populations built up immunities to these diseases. The natives of the Americas had few domesticated animals and so their populations were not familiar with - and hence had built up natural immunities - to diseases such as smallpox and many strains of the flu.

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