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I don't think this bodes well for the future. Both rats and bats have been huge vectors of diseases. This is going to produce some kind of super virus that will be another middle age plague like pandemic.

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echelon

3 hours ago

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This probably isn't new behavior, simply something we're witnessing for the very first time.

We haven't observed orcas predate moose or primates, but the former has plenty of supporting evidence and the latter has probably happened at some point.

In any case, zoonotic reservoirs likely slosh around a lot more than we think before spillover events.

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zwnow

2 hours ago

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Didn't think I'd ever read about a neighboring city of mine on HN. We're also the state that piloted using open source software for public offices in case that's interesting to someone. Yes, Germany goes further up north after Hamburg.