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Well this is a potential side-effect of global climate change/warming that I had never considered... And I don't know this for sure, but off the cuff, I'm betti
by themartorana 11y ago
Well this is a potential side-effect of global climate change/warming that I had never considered... And I don't know this for sure, but off the cuff, I'm betting neither have 7,999,999,000 or so of the 8 billion people on the planet.
And I'm not talking about the Godzilla-esque viruses, but the possibly dormant but not dead strains of smallpox, etc.
Great illustration though - we may not have eradicated any viruses on the planet - just on the surface. (Paraphrase the article.)
- rnovak 11y agoI always wonder where people get these numbers. From what I understand, census bureaus, etc, still only say there are 7.3 billion people on Earth. Where are you getting the other 700,000,000?
- tizzdogg 11y agoPerhaps exact figures were not the point of the comment.
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- Fomite 11y agoPublic health folks think about this a lot. More pressing is things like expanding ranges for major vectors like diseases.