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So the top 10 diseases that could end humanity…..I’m going to take the definition of disease with
a pinch of salt here and cover humanity ending ILLNESSES instead…also..
Have you played the game Pandemic?
I enjoy it but it is pretty stressful… this is like…a real life version of that…where…I
mean….
I guess we all die.
10 - The Plague No, you haven’t fallen asleep and woken
up in the middles ages….and then…again in the 1600s…
You may be surprised to know that people still get the plague today.
Between 1346 and 1353, the Bubonic plague killed around 50% of Europe’s entire population.
There are three types of Plague , bubonic, Pneumonic and septicemic.
Plagues are still spread by rodents, wild dogs, rabbits and cats, but pneumonic plague
can also be spread by coughs and sneezes.
All people who contract pneumonic plague will die unless they get treated.
Right now there is a huge outbreak of pneumonic plague in Madagascar.
Between 2015 and 2017, there have been a number of plague cases in New Mexico.
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/pneumonic-plague-in-madagascar/article36687664/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com& 9 - Armagedon Virus
Okay, that isn’t the name for it, that is the Daily Mail headline for an article about
it…and …you know the Daily Mail.
Actually called Crimean Congo Viral Haemorrhagic Fever, the Armageddon Virus had only previously
been seen in bats but now some scientists are saying a human borne global outbreak is
inevitable.
The infectious disease can be passed to humans by ticks and can be fatal.
As the illness takes hold, suffers develop huge bruises from internal bleeding, it can
then lead to organ failure.
One man from Glasgow caught the disease in Afghanistan and there are further reports
of outbreaks in the middle east.
The Armagedon virus is being likened to Sars, which is coming in at number 8
Severe acute respiratory Syndrome made itself known between November 2002 and July 2003
when it was spread to humans via Asian Civet cats.
The disease broke out in Guangdong, China, and spread in pockets across the world due
to unknowingly infected people travelling on planes.
By July of the following year, there were 8 and a half thousand reported cases of Sars,
including a serious outbreak in Geraldton, Ontario.
The death rate was roughly between 15 to 20%, but luckily Sars seem to be contained by 2004…which
is good as we don’t have a vaccine.
7 - Spanish Flu Absolute no to the Spanish Flu.
This trickster killed 50 million people in 1918, just a casual 40 per cent of the world’s
population.
This horrifying influenza has a very short incubation period, meaning by the time people
realized they had it, there was really nothing they could do.
Luckily the Spanish Flu of the 20th century seemed to fizzle out, but unluckily diseases
have been known to resurface with different strains, for example some see similarities
in Spanish Flu and Bird Flu.
Not a disease, but a problem that could mark the beginning of the end for humanity, we
have Drug resistant bacteria at number 6 When medicine advanced far enough that we
were able to develop antibiotics, we were able to save so many lives.
Antibiotics fight infection.
The problem is, that bacteria are constantly evolving to become resistant to antibiotics.
Doctors have to be careful when prescribing antibiotics as oversubscription when they’re
not needed can cause these bacteria to mutate and become a serious public health issue.
There are already some bacteria that have become resistant to drugs we have, and some
called multi-resistant organisms that are now resistant to many antibiotics.
Ways we can tackle more of this happening include proper prescriptions and good hygiene.
5 - Ebola Ebola had a hugeeee outbreak recently between
2013 to 2016 and was mainly a problem in West Africa, however pandemics have been known
to occur.
Ebola is a haemorrhaging disease that you really don’t want….
In the most recent outbreak, around 30,000 people caught the disease and around 40% of
them died, although in previous outbreaks, Mortality rates of 90% have been recorded.
The West African outbreak was the most widespread outbreak of Ebola in history.
If the this disease truly spread overseas, we could all be in serious danger.
A lot like Ebola, we have the Marbug Virius Disease at number 4
Ah.
Marbug is also a haemorrhaging disease which can carry a 70 to 90 percent mortality rate.
The first known outbreak of Marbug occurred in Germany in 1967 when a shipment of Monkey’s
from Uganda arrived infected.
Grotesquely, this disease causes skin to peel of and internal bleeding.
Luckily the initial outbreak was contained in the 60s, but it resurfaced between 1998
and 2000 when 128 people died from it in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Right now there is an outbreak in Uganda.
Something scary lurking under the ice at number 3 we have Frozen Ancient Diseases
As the worlds climate is hotting up, areas previously totally covered in ice are thawing
and with them, long forgotten ancient diseases are awakening that humans no longer have an
immunity to.
As permafrost soils warm up, ancient bacteria is returning to life.
For example a 12 year old boy died and 20 other people were hospitalised with anthrax
poisoning as ice thawed and water brought it into a Siberian settlement.
2 – Cancer Cancer is on the rise.
1 in 3 people contract cancer in their lifetime, which means it will affect you somehow one
day.
You can’t catch cancer from humans, which means it wont start a pandemic, however certain
things in our modern environment are causing humans to develop cancer, which is a problem.
As radiation increases, so do Cancer cases.
Radiation of course isn’t just nuclear, it is solar too…which is why we need to
look after our ozone layer.
Obesity is said to be a cause in rising cancer cases too, so as populations eat the wrong
things and get plumper, they’re more likely to get cancer, too.
And, the biggest sexually transmitted disease, HPV, which 79 million Americans are carrying,
can also lead to cancer.
Finally, the scariest disease that could end humanity is probably Unknown…and the unknown
is what is freaking us out at number one.
There are diseases out there that we don’t know about yet….some scientists elude to
HIV as an example of a disease that crept up on us.
As it has a long incubation period, when people started showing symptoms of the disease, they
had already been infected for years.
We could, in theory be infected by something right now that we have no idea how to test
for.
Again, there may be diseases out there waiting to strike.
As the human population swells, we are encroaching on spaces inhabited by wildlife we may not
have come into contact with so much just yet.
Like rats, they could be carriers of diseases that our immune systems do not yet have defences
for.
Again, as populations increase, our proximity to one another decreases, meaning infections
spread more easily.
If this list freaked you out, I am really sorry, but the good news is there is a lot
we can do to lower our risks of being wiped out by disease.
Further research into medicine is one thing, as is proper waste management, but one thing
you and I can do to help ourselves is be hygienic, wash our hands, as well as staying healthy
by eating right, drinking water and exercising.
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