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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6158055" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Yes, but that's true for pretty much all the scenarios listed. While there may be some local issues, short of the nuclear option, it takes humans a lot of work to really screw up global ecology. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sorry, this one is pushing my science-literacy buttons: No. Wrong. </p><p></p><p>Being deadly does not mean a virus is more likely to jump species. If anything, killing more victims quickly (the typical view of "deadly") decreases the chance, by simply decreasing chance of exposure. If a disease is zoonotic (jumps from animals to humans, of humans to animals) the effects are usually not of equal severity. For example, the strains of influenza that knock us flat don't generally do so much to the chickens or pigs in which they originate.</p><p></p><p>Moreover, while over time we've developed quite a list of zoonotic diseases, this is because there's thousands of years, and thousands of strains of viruses involved. The chances for any single particular strain making the jump is small.</p><p></p><p>So, to answer sabrinathecat's question - a plague that kills off humans is likely to leave most animals alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6158055, member: 177"] Yes, but that's true for pretty much all the scenarios listed. While there may be some local issues, short of the nuclear option, it takes humans a lot of work to really screw up global ecology. Sorry, this one is pushing my science-literacy buttons: No. Wrong. Being deadly does not mean a virus is more likely to jump species. If anything, killing more victims quickly (the typical view of "deadly") decreases the chance, by simply decreasing chance of exposure. If a disease is zoonotic (jumps from animals to humans, of humans to animals) the effects are usually not of equal severity. For example, the strains of influenza that knock us flat don't generally do so much to the chickens or pigs in which they originate. Moreover, while over time we've developed quite a list of zoonotic diseases, this is because there's thousands of years, and thousands of strains of viruses involved. The chances for any single particular strain making the jump is small. So, to answer sabrinathecat's question - a plague that kills off humans is likely to leave most animals alone. [/QUOTE]
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