[AU72]

A few years ago the pathogen was ID’d as a hantavirus causing Hemorrhagic fever which is native to the New World. The same pathogen had caused a population crash before.

In New England the first colonists saw many native villages depopulated because of disease.

[Varda]

Those are very different time frames. The large scale native die off that was thought to have been caused by European diseases occurred in the mid 16th century.

The later die offs north of Mexico were localized. They'd have to find some bodies and do a case by case analysis to find a cause. I haven't seen any studies that’ve been done for New England natives. Abandoned camps were the norm for New England tribes, they didn't maintain settlements.