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Rockstar
02-08-17, 11:23 AM
never seen before infectious diseases! :Kaleun_Applaud::Kaleun_Cheers:

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/02/07/512634375/map-find-out-what-new-viruses-are-emerging-in-your-backyard

If you're a germaphobe, make sure you're sitting down.

Over the past 60 years, the number of new diseases cropping up in a decade has almost quadrupled. The number of outbreaks each year has more than tripled since 1980.

"We're in a hyperinfectious disease world," says epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, who directs the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis.

AVGWarhawk
02-08-17, 11:26 AM
I never really thought the a-bomb would be the undoing of the human race. It is something small that is invasive...that spreads, will be the undoing.

Aktungbby
02-08-17, 11:47 AM
Interests http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/smartdark/userfield_edit.gif (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=313053#) Ma'at & Götterdämmerung Mother Nature's ma'at only counters our Homo Sapient frenzied breeding schedule (götterdämmerung) eventually. The Black Death... Ebola... HIV... Flu...Hanta Virus....Alzheimer's and global warming has got to be a perfect petri dish for new stuff plus whatever the military science jocks will lose control of ...eventually...! Every government Social Security office I worked in had SAR's warnings on the breakroom walls; a fact not escaping me as I climb aboard a jet airliner (think group-sex for lungs????):()1: "Oh hi" (2 seat mate) I see your from China....":O: and they stop me at the gate for dressing....preparedly https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Medico_peste.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Medico_peste.jpg)< "Nuthin' good goes outta style BBY"... although what 'herbs' I've stuffed in the beak is anyone's guess!:har:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume)