African Swine Fever Is Spreading and Eliminating It Will Take Decades

Re:African Swine Fever Is Spreading and Eliminating It Will ... by soulofmischief on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:29PM (#20111324)

I'm sorry but I wasn't framing anything as anything, in fact I wasn't speaking about stopping the spread of the virus at all.

Reread my post. I was talking about introducing a virus to kill off feral hogs.

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Re:African Swine Fever Is Spreading and Eliminating It Will ... by darkpuma on Thursday June 06, 2019 @11:55AM (#20115738)

I don't propose introducing the virus. I propose standing back and letting the virus run it's course, should it make it to the Americas.

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Re:African Swine Fever Is Spreading and Eliminating It Will ... by soulofmischief on Thursday June 06, 2019 @06:13PM (#20119746)

I'm confused why you don't take this to the next logical step. If it runs its course things could get worse.

What if it jumps species?

What if our livestock doesn't recover?

If you read the article, it describes how hardy this virus is. That's not the kind of virus we want spreading and evolving.

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