Foreign explorers and visitors brought the first diseases to Hawaiʻi after contact with the outside world in the late 1700s. Native Hawaiians had no immunity, so diseases spread very quickly, such as small pox and measles.
Foreign explorers and visitors brought the first diseases to Hawaiʻi after contact with the outside world in the late 1700s. Native Hawaiians had no immunity, so diseases spread very quickly, such as small pox and measles.