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Cook didnt infect Aboriginal australians with disease as he barely set foot on land here. He did shoot a few though.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7787915/Captain-Cook-shot-Aborigine-set-foot-Australian-soil.html

However his actions throughout the rest of the pacific can be compared to a virus. Cook and his crew spread influenza, Venereal disease, Tuberculosis, measles, chicken pox and polio amongst islanders that were never previously infected.

Overlook your sanitized, glorified picture of Cook as some sort of hero and see that while he could follow a compass bearing until he bumped into land he and his crew showed no respect to anyone not of british heritage.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/06/native-hawaiian-population/

"Swanson’s estimates show that the death rate among Native Hawaiians accelerated devastatingly fast after their first contact with Western foreigners. Captain Cook and his crew wrote in well-documented accounts about concerns that they had infected the population with venereal diseases (Cook said he unsuccessfully tried to prevent his men from mingling with the native women). Over the years, many other infectious diseases and illnesses such as measles, chicken pox, polio and tuberculosis killed thousands of Hawaiians.By Swanson’s estimates, 1-in-17 Native Hawaiians had died within two years of Cook’s arrival. By 1800, the population had declined by 48% since Cook set foot on Hawaii. By 1820, it had declined 71%; by 1840, it declined 84%."