These
viruses are considered by the World Health Organization to likely cause a severe outbreak
in our near future.
Bear in mind that a lot of these viruses still don’t have any cures or effective medical
interventions.
So if one of these viruses were to spread today, it could be the end of humanity.
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Alright let’s jump right into our list of the top 10 scary viruses that could end humankind.
Swine and bird flus make it onto our list in at number 10.
Let’s travel back to 2009 when we had the H1N1 pandemic.
In that outbreak, the virus was made up of a mixture of bird, human and swine viruses.
According to the centre for disease control, because the virus both infected humans and
was easily transmitted from person to person, it caused a worldwide pandemic.
Thankfully for us, the fatality rate was not high enough to cause a serious threat to the
world population and the pandemic was declared over in 2010.
But since viruses can spread so easily between pigs and birds to humans, what if a highly
fatal version of the swine or bird flu came into existence?
The world might just find itself in some serious trouble.
Rotavirus takes the number 9 spot.
This is virus is actually pretty devastating.
It is known as the child killer because it is responsible for killing over 500,000 children
per year.
The Rotavirus is spread through fecal-oral exposure which is often found on play surfaces
or contaminated water.
Symptoms include, diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain and it can be deadly, especially in the
developing world.
This virus can be found in every country and almost every child in the world will suffer
from at least one infection by the time he or she is 3 years old.
Thankfully we have vaccines now that can prevent this virus from become deadly, but for less
developed countries, this virus is still responsible for lots of children dying each year.
Lassa virus is in at number 8.
This scary virus was first diagnosed in Berlin and it can be extremely difficult for doctors
to diagnose it because only 20 percent of infected people show symptoms.
But, when this virus hits you, patients can quickly move from a mild fever to hemorrhaging,
encephalitis and shock.
But that’s not even the worst part of this virus.
One of the most common complication is deafness.
It is estimated that about a third of all Lassa patients will lose some or all of their
hearing.
The Lassa fever is primarily found in West Africa and it can be contracted when people
come into contact with infected rat droppings or if they come into contact with an infected
persons bodily fluids.
And even though we have an antiviral drug, there is no current vaccine for this scary
virus.
Next up in at number 7 we are talking about SARS.
Back in 2003, the SARS global outbreak killed relatively few people worldwide but because
it is so easily transmitted through sneezing and coughing, the National Select Agent Registry
Program has declared that SARS has the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and
safely.
So yeah, basically if a more toxic strain of the virus were to spread, it would cause
a serious risk to humanity and we’d all be living in a post apocalyptic world...if
we manage to survive.
Number 6 HIV/AIDS.
Since this disease was first recognized in the 1980s, an estimated 36 million people
have died from HIV.
Many doctors have said that HIV & AIDS takes the biggest toll on mankind right now and
it could still be one of the biggest killers here on Earth.
With modern medicine, we have powerful antiviral drugs that make it possible for people to
live for years with HIV.
But this disease continues to devastate a lot of low and middle income countries.
According to the global statistics, there are approximately 36.9 million people worldwide
living with HIV/AIDS in 2017 and that’s why this unfortunate disease is known as the
mass killer.
Climbing up onto this list in at number 5 we have the black death.
This scary sounding virus is thought to have been spread by fleas that were carried on
rats.
Approximately 75-200 million people in Europe between 1346-1353 were killed because of this
virus.
That’s about 30-60 percent of Europe’s total population.
Many people died within two days of developing symptoms which included rashes, fever, vomiting
blood and swollen lymph glands.
Back then this disease spread slowly but could you imagine how much more quickly the plague
would spread in modern times?
It would probably wipe us out easily.
Oh and idf you thought this was a thing of the past, you’d be wrong.
A handful of people catch the plague from mice year year in the US.
The Spanish Flu brings us to number 4.
There have been several world-threatening flu outbreaks but one of the scariest outbreaks
was the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.
This pandemic wiped out nearly 50 million people worldwide or up to 40 percent of the
world’s population.
This disease has an extremely short incubation period and a very high mortality rate and
that’s what makes this disease so dangerous.
So many people started to die just hours after their symptoms started to show.
Unlike other flu epidemics that mainly target babies and the elderly, this flu did not discriminate.
Everyone was a target and no one was safe.
A virus list would not be complete without talking about the infamous Ebola virus in
at number 3.
Did you know that there are five strains of the Ebola virus?
They are named after countries and regions in Africa.
So they are; Zaire, Sudan, Tai Forest, Bundibugyo and Reston.
The most deadly strain of Ebola is the Zaire one because It has a mortality rate of 90
percent.
Ebola is spread through contact with blood or other body fluids, or tissue from other
infected people or animals.
Symptoms of Ebola typically are: weakness, fever, aches, diarrhea, vomiting and stomach
pain.
Some people might experience a rash, red eyes, chest pain, difficulty breathing and internal
bleeding.
Currently, there is no known cure for Ebola and the goal is just to treat the symptoms
and make the person comfortable.
Marburg virus comes onto this list in at number 2.
This deadly virus was first discovered in 1967 when small outbreaks occurred in lab
workers in Germany who were exposed to infected monkeys that were brought in from Uganda.
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The Marburg virus is really similar to Ebola.
Infected people will develop really high fevers and bleeding throughout their entire body
which can lead to shock, organ failure and death.
The fatality rate for this virus is around 90% and there is no proven treatment for this
virus.
So lucky for us, it has been contained but if it does come back...we are in serious trouble.
The moment you’ve all been waiting for, in at number 1, an entirely new and unknown
disease that could potentially end humankind.
For all we know, the next big killer virus could already be making its way towards us.
Take HIV for example, it has such a long incubation period that it was able to spread like crazy
before anyone was even aware of its existence.
Thankfully its transmission methods kept it from completely wiping out life on Earth but
maybe we won’t be as lucky with the next virus.
The thing with this type of disease, is that they pop out of nowhere even though they might
have been harboring in animals for hundreds of thousands of years but we won’t know
they exist until it affects a vulnerable human.