<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 4, 2020, 8:50 AM <a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a> <<a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" dir="ltr"><div></div>
<div><span>zoonotic. I had to look up the word:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>from <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html</a><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><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">So there isn't much of a "barrier" between animals and humans.<br></div><div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As long as some people in the world have close contact with live or undercooked exotic critters, no.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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