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Brian Stump from Fort Collins :

I sincerely doubt that transfers of viruses from animals to humans is significantly more common than in the past.
Communication, population density and mobility just makes it more noticeable now. In the past probably small communities would be decimated and that would be the end of it. Becoming a story relayed by traveling merchants.

Feb 11, 2020 07:58 AM

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