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<div><span>zoonotic. I had to look up the word:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>from <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html</a><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><blockquote><div><span>Zoonotic diseases are very common, both in the United States and around
the world. Scientists estimate that more than 6 out of every 10 known
infectious diseases in people can be spread from animals, and 3 out of
every 4 new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals<br></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So there isn't much of a "barrier" between animals and humans.<br></div><div><br><span></span></div><span></span></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, May 3, 2020, 2:24:51 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Paul Zander (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Maybe my previous understanding was backwards. Maybe the question is<br clear="none">> "why do we tend to think that most illnesses are specific to one<br clear="none">> species?"<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I note with concurrence Deirdre's answer. In addition, I was just going<br clear="none">to say that zoonotic diseases are probably de-facto rare enough that we<br clear="none">need an exotic word ('zoonotic') for the concept. Our first-level<br clear="none">response, when we hear about things like Mad Cow Disease, that you're OK<br clear="none">if you're not a cow, is generally correct (albeit not if ingesting meat <br clear="none">from Mad Cow Disease-infected cattle, oddly enough).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Of course, our intuition on that is partly based on relatively limited<br clear="none">contact between humans and other animals, and some apparently-new<br clear="none">zoonotic infections have been occurring as humans barge into formerly<br clear="none">remote animal habitats. So, then you get odd cases of a veterinary<br clear="none">ailment that crosses into a single human host, and we think, wow, at<br clear="none">least we're lucky enough that the pathogen has no human-to-human<br clear="none">infection path. Except, once in a blue moon, _that_ firewalling fails,<br clear="none">and then we're in November 2019 in Wuhan, and, oops!<div class="ydpce56b9b9yqt2147694906" id="ydpce56b9b9yqtfd76245"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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