Due to modern speed and frequency of transport, new diseases are going to spread really fast. Eventually you're going to get an HIV equivalent that is passed on through contact or the air. That is going to be really bad.
--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> How about antibiotics-which are a good thing and have saved
> tons of lives- when overused give rise to a super-resistant
> bug that will wipe out large numbers of people? Sounds like
> a "B" Sci-fi Japanese flick from the 60s, but
> it's possible and even likely at some point.
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> I only started looking seriously at this after getting
> lyme-disease which, ta-dah, is requiring me to take mass
> quantities of antibiotics for a while.
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