pathogens
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As people move deeper and deeper into ecosystems and territories where few, if any, had lived before, they risk interacting with pathogens that were previously confined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The potential use of chatbots or agents to develop deadly pathogens has long been a concern among AI safety experts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Climate change and environmental disturbance have aided an increasing creep of the territories ticks inhabit—along with the viruses, bacteria, and pathogens they carry.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Both pathogens can develop resistance and become "superbugs" that evade frontline drugs such as vancomycin.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
These diseases must have been the evolutionary survivors of far more pathogens that tried to make the jump to us from animals—and mostly failed.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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