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Disease Has Never Been Just Disease for Native Americans - The Atlantic
Post-contact diseases were crippling not so much because indigenous people lacked immunity, but because the conditions created by European and U.S. colonialism made Native communities...https://www.science.org › content › article › european-diseases-left-genetic-mark-native-americans
European diseases left a genetic mark on Native Americans - Science
Now, researchers have found that these diseases have also left their mark on modern-day populations: A new study suggests that infectious diseases brought by Europeans, from smallpox to measles, have molded the immune systems of today's indigenous Americans, down to the genetic level. The immune system is a complex structure, built over a ...https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articles › PMC8785365