Plague a growing threat to humans again?!
Question: How scary is this? Considering the terrible times through history with this disease!
Any thoughts?
Answers: How scary is this? Considering the terrible times through history with this disease!
Any thoughts?
Statistically speaking, we may be overdue for a major outbreak of plague. Historically, the worst plagues were in the sixth, fourteenth, and 19th centuries. Undoubtedly plagues in the past were inhibited by the slow methods of transportation used back then, as well as by the fact that the global population of humans was much less then than it is today. Thirdly, immigration from the third world to the developed countries, of both the legal and illegal kinds, is quite high today. AIDS probably came to the United States inside the body of an infected African immigrant. But so strong is the political favor for third-world immigration here that not all of the deaths from AIDS has taught us a lesson. So, of course, it will be repeated. The question is, when? Nobody knows, exactly.
I hope I die peacefully.
I don't really know. But I found it quite ironic that I saw this headline and read this article this morning, because I just watched V for Vendetta the other night, and that's all I could think of while reading the article.
Too many coincidences, but then again in the movie it even says "there is no such thing as coincidence, only the illusion of coincidence".
The whole thing kinda creeps me out a little, but it's only been a recent problem in London, and spreading to Africa - which doesn't surprise me, they seem to have every disease under the sun there.
It does make me sad though, to think that maybe I won't be able to travel to places in the world I want to see because of the fear of government or disease.
The article did say also that it can be treated if found early enough, so as long as people are careful, it shouldn't be as big of an epidemic as it was in medieval times.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW. Keep away from me lmao.
Yes, there will always be plagues. It's Mother Nature's way of thinning the herd.
if infected i want a peaceful painless death
I'm jumping off a cliff now good bye.
its really scary
what if the past
happens again
that would not be good, considering all the problems the world is already going threw
how am i supposed to know if it is scary or not
and if i got it how am i supposed to answer ill be dead
rite?????
i thin keven with the growing threat possibility, it still won't hit as hard as it did back in the day. we have had so many advances in medicine i would hope we would be able to stop it before it became an epidemic. of course it just takes one stupid person to ruin it all.
actually, i have seen the headlines but i havent read it yet.
better be careful and improve our resistance by taking lots of water and vitamin c.
This is nothing more than the typical sensationalism used by the media to sell ad-spots.
Not scary. The plague was deadly because no one new what it was, there were no such things as antibiotics. When you look at how JUST RECENTLY viruses and bacteria were "discovered" you see that we are in completely different times than we were then:
http://www.bookrags.com/research/the-dis...
Who knows..it could happen. Or the media is spoon feeding us alot of scary stories on behalf of the Multi National Pharmaceutical companies to fill their pockets again...
If the "Killer Plague " does strike. I hope it gets them first. That would be poetic justice...
i prefer to die accidentally and direct to the spot rather than suffer from sickness
It is not all that scary The world health Organisation think that with antibiotics the death rate could be reduced from sixty per cent to fifteen per cent still rather high for comfort
We have treatments now that actually treat it. Once the regular influenza and bronchitis or pneumonia were almost surely death sentances. But now these things can be treated. it's the "super strains" of things like tuberculosis, and unknown new viruses like birdflu that make me nervous. But they are making progress on those too.
I just read that it has showed up in Africa. They don't have the resources to treat something like this. If it gets out of Africa(and it will) it could become a world wide pandemic. We should be very afraid, because even if there are antibiotics there will come a time when there won't be enough for everybody. Then who do you think will get the supply? You and me? Or the rich? The Plague will make AIDS look like the common cold.
according to my geography teacher, and my CPR instructor, yes, we are all going to die from a super virus plauge soon. Considering the amount of people on the earth and how close contact we are all in, I think it's possible, someday, but not for a long while.... Unless you watch Heros, although, they stopped that plague, so who knows now....
Its horrible---But so interesting. When you look at viruses and how they mutate and what combinations actually kill its amazing. Also take heart b/c viruses constantly mutate so even if a killer strain evolves it tends to mutate again pretty quickly. I also agree with the other answer about "thinning the herd" its not something included in many church sermons but I do think disease is part of the cosmic plan that maintains balance. AND one more thing--historically a deadly virus has emerged from markets (think China) where you pickout yr fresh fowl or pig and have it butchered on the spot. Roughly,a virus harmless in fowl mutates in pig blood and becomes deadly to humans--
I think it is no different than the flu scares they try to shove down our throats every single year so the pharmaceutical companies can make all sorts of money off of easily manipulated and scared people.
Mark my words: We will hear more and more about this and then Pfizer or some such company will come up with a "vaccine" that we don't truly need in the first place. And tons of people will line up to get it.......Sigh.