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There are some potentially very nasty diseases spread by ticks and insects. For example, flaviviruses like West Nile, Dengue, and Powassan (which debilitated a
by pfdietz 4mo ago
There are some potentially very nasty diseases spread by ticks and insects. For example, flaviviruses like West Nile, Dengue, and Powassan (which debilitated and ultimately killed the wife of Canadian fantasy author Charles de Lint.)
- mr_toad 4mo agoNot to mention Malaria, which kills over half a million people a year.
- intrasight 4mo agoAnd has killed a large fraction of all humans who have ever lived.
- OutOfHere 4mo agoIt has, but it also has saved a lot of people by slowing down invasions.
- BigTTYGothGF 4mo agoArthropods of all (most) sorts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbovirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbovirus