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explain why most of the whites recovered from diseases such as measles and smallpox while the same diseases wiped out significant portions of the native american community

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Whites recovered from diseases such as measles and smallpox because their bodies were used to the diseases and their bodies knew how to get rid of them. Native Americans had never experienced diseases like those so their bodies didn't know how to handle them.

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Whites recovered from diseases such as measles and smallpox because their bodies were used to the diseases and their bodies knew how to get rid of them. Native Americans had never experienced diseases like those so their bodies didn't know how to handle them.
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