[ralfy]

"...leaps from animals to humans could devastate mankind in the next five years"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... years.html

[The Practician]

Yeah, could. Or ten years. or twenty five. It's pretty much inevitable that there is going to be a pandemic comparable to the flu of 1918 sometime, probably sooner rather than later, but I don't see the point in getting too worked up about it. It's not like there enough people on the planet.

[Ferretlover]

Almost anything is possible. If you want to leave the Matrix and find out just how vulnerable humans are to viruses, read The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett (Amazon, $12 & some change) that was suggested by ritter.
I was only through the first fourth and I was wishing it was FICTION! Well-written, a little over 700 pp, I'll write a review when I finish.

[ritter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ferretlover', '
')I was only through the first fourth and I was wishing it was FICTION!

[Lore]

Is this the same Daily Mail, that recently reported that the planet has not warmed in 16 years?

[ralfy]

The Coming Plague is a very good book! Well-documented, too, with discussions of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Legionnaire's disease, etc.

[ralfy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Practician', 'Y')eah, could. Or ten years. or twenty five. It's pretty much inevitable that there is going to be a pandemic comparable to the flu of 1918 sometime, probably sooner rather than later, but I don't see the point in getting too worked up about it. It's not like there enough people on the planet.

[Laromi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', '&')quot;...leaps from animals to humans could devastate mankind in the next five years"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... years.html

[The Practician]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Practician', 'Y')eah, could. Or ten years. or twenty five. It's pretty much inevitable that there is going to be a pandemic comparable to the flu of 1918 sometime, probably sooner rather than later, but I don't see the point in getting too worked up about it. It's not like there enough people on the planet.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Practician', 'Y')eah, could. Or ten years. or twenty five. It's pretty much inevitable that there is going to be a pandemic comparable to the flu of 1918 sometime, probably sooner rather than later, but I don't see the point in getting too worked up about it. It's not like there enough people on the planet.

[ralfy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Laromi', '
')
Pure humbug, what is talked about here are diseases that have probably been about and remodeled for millenia. And certainly most vectors such as ticks and mosquitoes are not strangers to our environment. $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ars-like virus that had previously only been seen in bats

[ralfy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Practician', '
')Yeah, sure, whatever. My point, which admittedly got a bit garbled when I accidentaly delteted the word "aren't" from "its not like there aren't enough people on the planet", is that there isn't any reason to get all worked up over it.