Whether livestock can be infected is perhaps the most important question. The chance encounter of a wildlife pathogen with domestic animals raised in large numbers in close quarters will yield devastating results. That could be human epidemic/pandemic/endemic disease, farms wiped out and/or reverse spillover.
Kimberley diphtheria rates more than triple in a month after 50-year eradication
By Ruby Littler
An outbreak of the long-dormant, highly contagious bacterial infection diphtheria in Western Australia's north is raising alarm among government officials and experts.

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