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There are significantly more humans in which a human-borne virus could live and/or mutate.
by inetknght 2y ago
There are significantly more humans in which a human-borne virus could live and/or mutate.
- nradov 2y agoThere are significantly fewer humans living in close contact with livestock in which a zoonotic virus could be transmitted. I'm skeptical that there has been a net increase. It's possible but I haven't seen any reliable evidence one way or the other.
- inetknght 2y agoBut there are significantly more amounts of livestock in contact with those fewer humans. Think of it this way: more total numbers = more opportunities for viruses to grow or mutate = more chances for runaway or novel infections. Runaway infections are dealt with fairly well by government entities. Novel infections... might be harder to discover because they're, well, novel.