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- Title: Crowding and Disease Virulence
- Author : David P. Clark
- Release Date : January 15, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 394 KB
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This Element is an excerpt from Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today (9780137019960) by David P. Clark. Available in print and digital formats.
Why it's wishful thinking to believe that diseases will eventually evolve into milder formsóand what the hard truth means for humanity.
Earlier thinking held that, given time, all diseases would adapt, to become no worse than measles. Virulent diseases were newcomers, not yet adapted to biological dÈtente with their human hosts. This wishful thinking has obvious marketing appealóbut it ignores the ugly side of both evolution and human history.
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