Even more than that. If news was able to make it back, the viruses also surely would have made it back to the European mainland at sime point, bringing Europe t

Even more than that. If news was able to make it back, the viruses also surely would have made it back to the European mainland at sime point, bringing Europe to its knees. Native societies all across the americas were struck by plague even before Europeans got there, as the disease moved faster than colonists into the interior.