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//**With the Europeans discovering the new found land of the United States they brought with them disease that would become a __major__ epidemic. It would ruin and even kill off innumerable Natives. After initial contact with the Indians some say that more Indians were killed off by disease then by bullets.**//

//**Disease to affect Native Americans Include:**//

//***Whooping Cough**// //***Smallpox**// //***Measles**// //***Influenza**// //***Obesity**// //***Diabetes**// //***Alcoholism**//  //**Each of these diseases are a serious threat to the Native Americans. It is easy to say that because there are not that many Native Americans around anymore that the nation of America can forget the Native Americans. However, the Europeans and the white Americans are who introduced all of these ailments to the Native Indians.**//    