According to the Princeton evolutionary biologist Andrew Dobson, when there are fewer potential hosts – that is, people – the deadliest strains of a pathogen have better chances of being passed on.
This “selection pressure” theory explains partly why rural villages were hardest hit during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
Per capita, more people died of Spanish flu in Alaska than anywhere else in the country.
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https://www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity-gap/how-have-pandemics-historically-changed-cities/
These are some more mind blowing facts that I hadn't heard before this UC Davis article by an assistant professor there.
If this is all true then this might be why 9 Yanomami children died of their variation of the Coronavirus there in Brazil so far.
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