Old Short story that ends with every man on the ship changing

[DrBrangar]

I read a short story in a collection about 5 years ago, but the stories were much older. The one in the collection that stood out the most was the one that involved a ship of (i think) colonists landing on a planet, meeting a red haired native, and when he is allowed in, he has a virus that changes every man on the ship to be the same as him, due to the way that his people had figured out how to eat the native food. The last few lines are of a female of the same type knocking on the hatch.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

This sounds like "Contagion" by Katherine MacLean.

Places it's been printed:

Bibliography: Contagion

Detailed plot summary here:

MacLean, Katherine - "Contagion" (1950)

 

[DrBrangar]

perfect. Thats exactly it. Thank you