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Ep 91 Myxomatosis: Down the rabbit hole
This Podcast Will Kill You
Viruses and Insephalitis
In some places, over 90 % of the rabbits had died within a month of the virus showing up. Two to three years after and later research showed that attenuated strains had popped up independently all over the continent during the 19 fifties. And so let's talk about the trend towards decreasing viruss in Australia. Why was it evolving to become less deadly? Well, if your virus that's transmitted by direct contact with its host before your host can't pass it on, you won't survive. As the rarest strain stays alive a few days longer than other strains do. So this evolution happened on a much larger scale than people expected. It obliterated any rabbit population it came into
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