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Seeing as we know the other viruses were still around in the 20th century, they must have been around in the Viking Age in some form, presumably with more genes intact, but we can't know in which host they existed. Most people would just assume they were in humans, but it might not be the case.
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Before the rise of sequencing there is a long historical record of disease outbreaks, some of which sound like smallpox, the further back in time you go, the less certain things are.
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Now we know there are other combinations of genes that would result in a virus that would work in humans, that would be transmissible, and may have other properties.
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Knowledge from the past can protect us in the present. When an animal or plant goes extinct, it isn't coming back. But mutations can re-occur or revert and viruses can mutate or spill over from the animal reservoir so there will always be another zoonosis( disease caused by viruses that jumped from animal hosts into human hosts).
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I never thought it would be as controversial as it turned out, although I remember saying when we were writing it that some religious nut case may take potshots at us, at the time, religion seemed to be on the back burner and it felt like kicking a dead donkey. It has come back with a vengeance and we'd think twice about making it now.
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