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Polymarket’s Hot New Bet: Hantavirus

By Anna Rogers and Sophie HurwitzMother Jones

Over the past four days, bettors on the prediction platform Polymarket have wagered nearly $3 million on whether we’ll see a hantavirus pandemic this year. A cluster of cases of a particularly deadly strain of the virus erupted on a cruise ship last month, ki…

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