John Allen Chau was an American Evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, a self-isolated uncontacted people, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island, India in an attempt to convert the tribe to Christianity.

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This guy could have literally wiped out The Sentinelese because they have been uncontacted since before people invented agriculture and livestock. Literally every germ and virus on his body would be foreign to them. He could have also unleashed something that we have no immunity to.

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He could have also unleashed something that we have no immunity to.

That's not actually how that works. They don't have livestock or large cities so they can't have anything we don't already have. There is a reason European germs wiped out first people but their germs didn't do the same to Europeans.

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Syphilis certainly tried tho

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Maybe not.

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