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Pandemic Potential: Scientists Discover 3 Hotspots of Deadly Emerging Disease in the US (scitechdaily.com)
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It's Virginia, Colorado, and Texas.

The main discovery here is an additional 6 mice species as hosts of hantavirus that were previously unknown.

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[โ€“] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

How would you get a pandemic from a disease which doesn't spread from person to person? There would have to be an awful lot of infected rodents around.

[โ€“] notoftenthat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Try this with only rodents for transmission.

I'm headed to Madagascar before it's too late.

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