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There was a similar result with NZ Maori during the Spanish flu. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/1918-influenza-pandemic/death-rates https://nzhistory.govt.nz

• hulitu 4y ago
  Because disease spread easier in the past on the european continent due to wars and comerce. NZ was an isolated island and Alaska is not really accesible without special clothing and supplies.
  • jleyank 4y ago
    This and, I suspect, the relative levels of medical care. Check out how the indigenous fared in any country that maintains such a categorization. North America certainly deals a poor hand to its origin people.
• ethanbond 4y ago
  Centuries of organized destruction of indigenous cultures and their physical + social infrastructure? Obscene levels of poverty, less access to medicine, justified skepticism of state health initiatives, abysmal baseline health due to aforementioned, etc. Perhaps there’s some underlying biological/immune differences, but let’s not put too much effort into overlooking the obvious.
• treeman79 4y ago
  Have read several times that Europeans practice of animal husbandry built up immune systems over the centuries. So lots of deaths. But more spread out. Native Americans didn’t have same practices. So got hit a lot harder.
• ekianjo 4y ago
  > I wonder why Europeans do better with these diseases? Higher levels of Vitamin D is a factor - because Vitamin D intervenes in several immune system pathways.
• jayknight 4y ago
  CGP Grey explains: https://youtu.be/JEYh5WACqEk https://youtu.be/JEYh5WACqEk
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• dontlaugh 4y ago
  The European descendants are less poor.