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> it stands to reason that over all of the exploring, investigating and just plain spreading that we do, we'd encounter some bacteria that are new to a populati
by zamfi 6y ago
> it stands to reason that over all of the exploring, investigating and just plain spreading that we do, we'd encounter some bacteria that are new to a population. If those had any great chance of killing us off, shouldn't at least local examples exist of that happening?
We have examples of exactly this! It was very bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_ep...
- kadoban 6y agoThose were diseases already in humans moving to an untouched population of humans, not what I was talking about. A bacterium that hasn't seem humans before is pretty unlikely to be able to do anything to us. One that hasn't even been in mammals before is even less likely, etc.