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Question: assuming Native Americans get their own homegrown nasty germies and pandemic(s) (assuming some long-term native domestication or "llama disease", for instance), how much would this affect the Old World?

IIRC, Old Worldies had more than just resistance to specific diseases from their long domestication-urbanization societies, but had in general better immune systems overall.

I assume this means they're more resistant to New World pandemics than the Native Americans were to Old World disease OTL. Does this mean a "mere" ~30% casualty rate?

And on the NW side, does this mean the NatAms have a better overall disease resistance than OTL, notably lowering death rates from OW diseases from OTL?
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