Why did the Columbian exchange ravage the Native American population with disease but not the Norse Vinland settlement?

by Shiloh86-12
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Simply stating, the alleged scale of contact between the Native Americans and the Norse people was quite limited and the latter did not have any motive to get in touch with the former in Norse settlements in Vinland (?).

While there will always be to said more, I wrote some comments to the relevant questions before in this subreddit: