Answer: African communities were not devastated by European diseases as American communities were.
Step-by-step explanation:
European trade with Asia and Africa had already spread diseases such as smallpox, measles and tuberculosis centuries before. However, those diseases were unknown for American native populations, and during the age of exploration, Europeans traveling to the discovered lands carried them with them. The Columbian Exchange, meaning Christopher Columbus's initial meeting with natives of the Caribbean, opened the trade of goods, and ignorantly of diseases as well.