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You know, one of the interesting takeaways from the Hurricane Katrina study was that they had an increase in skin infections. Vibro as well as respiratory illnesses increased with Hurricane Katrina. And there was one, I read it a long time ago, I'm just pulling this out of thin air, but if I recall correctly in 2017 they had these big floods in Peru and I remember reading about a surge in cases of, what is it, leptospirosis and dengue that occurred immediately after. So these diseases were present in the environment but the environmental conditions changed and became incredibly favourable for them. And then of course in Peru people had the exposure to it with the flooding conditions, you know, walking through water and then boom, you had leptospirosis and dengue fever coming out. So that's often what happens. Now like what you're mentioning with warming climate and insects and birds and whatever migrating to different areas, that's certainly something that we've seen. We've seen it with ticks over wintering in Ontario here. You know, the tick season used to be 8 months out of the year, now it's 12 months out of the year. Ticks can bite you at any time of the season here. And we saw Lyme disease migrate all over the place from Connecticut. But in terms of like a hurricane or a tornado or something, you know, specifically moving something into a new region, I haven't read anything about that. I don't know if it has happened, but I can't recall anything off the top of my head. Typically it's just the conditions exacerbate something that's already present in the environment. Again, that's the drop