According to the text, A) humans can be either victims or aggressors, depending on the virus we refer to. B) viruses have always posed a threat, not only to humans but also to the megafauna. C) the absolute silence of viruses contradicts their extensive destructive power. D) pandemics have always existed despite human efforts throughout centuries to control them. E) the settlement of new peoples in the Americas was favoured by the epidemics decimating native populations.

E) the settlement of new peoples in the Americas was favoured by the epidemics decimating native populations.

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The aliens among us

Humans think of themselves as the world’s apex predators. Hence the silence of sabre-tooth tigers, the absence of moas from New Zealand and the long list of endangered megafauna. But sars-cov-2 shows how people can also end up as prey. Viruses have caused a litany of modern pandemics, from Covid-19, to hiv/aids to the influenza outbreak in 1918-20, which killed many more people than the first world war. Before that, the colonisation of the Americas by Europeans was abetted – and perhaps made possible – by epidemics of smallpox, measles and influenza brought unwittingly by the invaders, which annihilated many of the original inhabitants.

(www.economist.com, 22.08.2020. Adapted.)

According to the text,

✂️ a) humans can be either victims or aggressors, depending on the virus we refer to.
✂️ b) viruses have always posed a threat, not only to humans but also to the megafauna.
✂️ c) the absolute silence of viruses contradicts their extensive destructive power.
✂️ d) pandemics have always existed despite human efforts throughout centuries to control them.
✂️ e) the settlement of new peoples in the Americas was favoured by the epidemics decimating native populations.