Did the Native American people pass any diseases back to the Europeans?

by CFL_lightbulb

Everyone knows about the smallpox epidemic, and now Saskatchewan, Canada currently has some First Nation peoples suffering from a mutated HIV strain and it made me think they seem to have low tolerance to certain diseases.

I can’t think of any diseases that were passed to the Europeans- why is that?

Iphikrates

They did! See the excellent older answers by /u/anthropology_nerd here and by u/400-rabbits here.