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slk_23 posted...

Does that mean scary viruses like these have always existed somewhere throughout nature, but it won't cause diseases in humans until a very specific set of events sets it off? Because both examples were way after globalization began, so do these viruses always exist somewhere in nature but won't start killing people until certain conditions are met?

That would be a correct, though extremely simplified, way to put it.

(The "from hunting bats for food" thing isn't necesserially correct either, though it does ultimately link back to bats somehow. We don't know for sure what the "somehow" is yet.)

Also, I think what you might be trying to get at with how you're using "discovered", could be what's known as the "spillover event"?

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