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LOL, wanted to say the same: DO NOT TOUCH!

Okay, apparently that is a reference to something I'm not getting. Could anyone please explain?

Perhaps a reference to Australian health ministers asking fans not to touch soccer balls that go into the stands?

No, it's the fact, that microbes, that have been outside of our ecosystem for so long remind a lot of people on the fall of the Aztec Empire...