While disease is a historical fact of life, plague is a product of civilization. Pandemic diseases emerge through natural processes accelerated by human activity intentionally and by accident; the difference is of degree. Consider the emergences of SARS-1, ebola, HIV and H1N1.https://twitter.com/WhiteCoatWaste/status/1396147937806278657 …
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Such improvements have been made in the past. The US has standards to ensure wildlife and livestock are kept apart, for instance, to prevent another Spanish Flu. If prion diseases start to break out in humans, it may have to ban deer hunting.
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Cholera has killed tens of millions worldwide since the first pandemic in... 1817. Until then outbreaks were almost entirely confined to India. Massive human intervention was required to make cholera into the menace it became.
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