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>If killing you means that the pathogen can spread more rapidly, it will evolve to do so. The plague/black death/Y pestis is another is a great example of this
by mason240 12y ago
>If killing you means that the pathogen can spread more rapidly, it will evolve to do so.
The plague/black death/Y pestis is another is a great example of this. It keeps its rat host just alive enough for just long enough for maximum use of the rats body. The rat then dies, which sends sends it plague-ridden fleas off to infect other rats.
- abakker 12y agoJust an FYI from a thread a few months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7513455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7513455 It seems that the Black Death was pneumonic as well as bubonic.