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What about animal vectors like birds?



Not impossible but doubtful. Every single time I know of that an investigation has been done it's traced to human carelessness.

I'm unable to find a link online but around fifteen years ago a farmer accidentally let a very small amount of some experimental GMO soybeans he was growing for a seed company as a test get into a truck headed to the local elevator.

Routine government testing resulted in a very large bin of soybeans getting purchased and destroyed. The financial hit caused the seed company to go bankrupt.


Human carelessness like allowing this crap in the first place?




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