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"Will Rats Cause the Next Pandemic?" - Steven Belmain
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Rodents in the Pandemic of Omacron
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We are still within what is called the third pandemic of plague. It started in a sort of international transport, steamships going round the world with rats on board. And they spread rats tho lote parts of the world, which had before not had plague. So we should be worried because of that history. But also their role in the current pandemic. We know quite certainly that rodents were not the the development, initial development of the corono virus. That was most likely bats. But rodents were certainly involved in the obecron variant and it's now spreading among lots of different animal species - including humans. There are worries about these mutating and spreading to other parts of
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