Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent of the pre- Columbian Native American population. | Jared Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel

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Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent of the pre- Columbian Native American population.

-- Jared Diamond