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- Jan 6, 2019
A novel hantavirus could indeed cause a serious outbreak of disease. Several have popped up in the last few years in the USA.
It’s also one possible candidate for the ‘Sweating Sickness’ disease that ravaged Tudor england.
There are uncounted diseases out there that can make the jump to humanity. As we fuck up more ecosystems and humans live in close contact in huge numbers, the chances of us a. Encountering such viruses and b. Them crossing the species barrier and then c. A transmission chain arising increases every year.
This won’t be our last plague.
It’s also one possible candidate for the ‘Sweating Sickness’ disease that ravaged Tudor england.
There are uncounted diseases out there that can make the jump to humanity. As we fuck up more ecosystems and humans live in close contact in huge numbers, the chances of us a. Encountering such viruses and b. Them crossing the species barrier and then c. A transmission chain arising increases every year.
This won’t be our last plague.