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The Viruses Causing New Outbreaks Are Less Familiar to Science (nytimes.com)
6 points by digital55 21 days ago
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Familiar viruses can be contained more easily, and tend not to outbreak.

Thus, non-familiar ones would be the ones to outbreak.

Evolution in action.

And we have vaccines for most of the very bad familiar virus, in particular smallpox.
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