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>Historically, most of the "History's major killers" (as CGPGrey called them) also emerged from wild species:
>Smallpox from rodents 16,000+ years ago (Li et al 2007)
>Typhus is spread by human and rodent parasites (Bechah et al 2008)
>Mumps has ties to bats (Drexler et al 2012), but also possible links to pigs so perhaps this one is a wash
>Tuberculosis has been co-evolving with humans for some 40,000 years (Wirth et al 2008), and while it was initially filtered out of population of the first Americans, it made its way to the Pre-Columbian Americas via seals / sea lions (Bos et al 2014)
>The Black Death - spread by rodents and their parasites (Brubaker 2015)
>Additionally, Cholera isn't a zoonotic disease at all (Lutz et al 2013)
>Malaria appears to have originated from gorillas (Liu et al 2010) and is, of course, spread by mosquitoes.
>Cocoliztli was the single greatest killer in colonial Mexico (killing up to 17 million people in the 1540s alone) and originated in rodents (Acuna-Soto et al 2002)
>HIV emerged from SIV, its simian counterpart (Sharp and Hahn 2011)
>Historically, most of the "History's major killers" (as CGPGrey called them) also emerged from wild species:
>Smallpox from rodents 16,000+ years ago (Li et al 2007)
>Typhus is spread by human and rodent parasites (Bechah et al 2008)
>Mumps has ties to bats (Drexler et al 2012), but also possible links to pigs so perhaps this one is a wash
>Tuberculosis has been co-evolving with humans for some 40,000 years (Wirth et al 2008), and while it was initially filtered out of population of the first Americans, it made its way to the Pre-Columbian Americas via seals / sea lions (Bos et al 2014)
>The Black Death - spread by rodents and their parasites (Brubaker 2015)
>Additionally, Cholera isn't a zoonotic disease at all (Lutz et al 2013)
>Malaria appears to have originated from gorillas (Liu et al 2010) and is, of course, spread by mosquitoes.
>Cocoliztli was the single greatest killer in colonial Mexico (killing up to 17 million people in the 1540s alone) and originated in rodents (Acuna-Soto et al 2002)
>HIV emerged from SIV, its simian counterpart (Sharp and Hahn 2011)
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