All of the following are examples of diseases that were brought from Europe and Africa to the New World and proved devastating to American Indians except __________.

Smallpox, influenza, and malaria were diseases introduced to the Americas from Europe or Africa and caused severe harm to Indigenous peoples. Distemper is primarily an animal disease, not one of the major diseases that devastated American Indians. Therefore, the exception is distemper.

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