Metus comments on LINK: Guinea worm disease close to eradication - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Metus 16 January 2015 09:56:52PM *  6 points [-]

Rinderpest was a disease in cattle we have eradicated. We are also making progress on on some more. Let's hope that this does not have any unintended horrible consequences like opening the ecosystem of human parasites to something potentially more deadly.