Know Your Enemy.
The problem is, we don't. HIV, Ebola, West Nile— just a few decades ago we didn't even know they existed. And those are just the tip of the iceberg. Eighty to ninety percent of the world's diseases and parasites still haven't been discovered yet.
They're discovering us easily enough. The weekly outbreaks and endlessly-mutating strains of recent years are ample evidence of that. They're far better at finding us than we are at finding them.
This database will be one small step towards redressing that imbalance. It will be a cross-referenced repository of what little we know, erected in the face of all we don't. It will grow over time, as we learn more.
We hope it grows fast enough. It's the bottom of the Eighth, and we are way behind.
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