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It is kinda funny that humanity can kills entire species like the dodo while cannot eradicate a bacterium like Borrelia.
by dev_l1x_be 1y ago
It is kinda funny that humanity can kills entire species like the dodo while cannot eradicate a bacterium like Borrelia.
- quesera 1y agoBig things are easier to eradicate, especially if they are slow, unaccustomed to being prey, and nutritious. Eradicating a bacterium with wild animal reservoir populations (deer, white-footed mice, black-legged ticks, all of which are endemic species) is ... a much harder problem.
- monster_truck 1y agoIf I could hunt Borrelia with spears it would be over
- voidmain0001 1y agoI would like to kill more deer which are part of the Lyme cycle. There are so many in the rural area I live, they remind of big city rats.
- diamondfist25 1y agoMake wolves great again
- rarrrrrr 1y agoStrangely enough, there's even some likelihood that killing off the passenger pigeon actually promoted Borrelia burgdorferi. The passenger pigeon's main food source was tree mast. Large flocks of pigeons would descend and clear the forest floor of food. After it went extinct, the population of small animals which also eat tree mast exploded, and these are reservoir species for Borrelia.
- BurningFrog 1y agoA Passenger Pigeon relaunch is planned for 2032: https://reviverestore.org/projects/about-the-passenger-pigeon/ https://reviverestore.org/projects/about-the-passenger-pigeo...
- nkrisc 1y agoThere were far fewer dodos than any given bacteria. You can also see a dodo.
- bregma 1y agoBorellia bergdorfii does not taste like chicken.