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[–] protist@retrofed.com 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You're basing this on what? It's bad, therefore it must be a conspiracy?

It's likely it existed for generations, but the cause was matched to the effect for the first time in 2002. There had been clear outbreaks prior to that where there had been no cause identified.