Originally Posted by
galleycafe
You're looking at this all wrong.
Global warming is the greatest existential threat to the human race.
Keep your eye on the prize.
Plane Coffee
Plague in the Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel, the State varmint in California. They had a few campers get it in Yosemite:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5189142/
There’s a colony with enzootic Yersinia Pestis in San Jose too.
But there is a whole bunch of importable troublemakers like Rift Valley Fever, Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever, Zika, Ebola, Lassa Fever, Marburg Fever, Machupo Virus, Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever...among others.
The only certainty is that other viruses WILL come along. Hopefully our response won’t be this FUBAR next time.