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by W4ldi 2276 days ago
I don't think the existing viruses that infect humans are so important. The problem is rather mutation - or evolution - any virus that at the moment does not affect humans can suddenly develop into one that infects humans, and this is how COVID-19 started. Land living animals are the greatest risk here because their bodies essentially work the same as humans and farming them increases the amount of viruses and thus the potential for a mutation to spread fast.