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The Viruses Causing New Outbreaks Are Less Familiar to Science

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Re: The Viruses Causing New Outbreaks Are Less Familiar to Science

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Familiar viruses can be contained more easily, and tend not to outbreak. Thus, non-familiar ones would be the ones to outbreak. Evolution in action.

And we have vaccines for most of the very bad familiar virus, in particular smallpox.