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by kijin
595 days ago
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It also depends on the density and mobility of your host population. Ebola kills too quickly for hosts to move around and spread it, but that's in small villages in the jungle. What if there's just enough time for the host to take a crowded train and attend a Presidential campaign rally with tens of thousands of other people before feeling too sick? This might be a better strategy for an ambitious virus in the post-Covid world than a slowly escalating illness that just makes people call in sick and stay home. |
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too quickly for _human_ hosts to spread it, but maybe that's where multi-species hosts comes into play.
perhaps it lingers nonlethal in some related species?
(like rabies in bats, for example)