Pantodemic?

[JoRo]

There is a theory that the more and more we mess around with antibiotics and vaccines and stuff, that newer more resistant infections and virus' can service, or ive read and heard of it. What do you think? What if someday a infection came out that was deady and contagious?

[2 Minute Warning]

Just my 2 cents

There is a theory that the more and more we mess around with antibiotics and vaccines and stuff, that newer more resistant infections and virus' can service, or ive read and heard of it. What do you think? What if someday a infection came out that was deady and contagious?

Yes I agree, sometimes they might fool around with Mother Nature too much
Albeit it must be very complicated at times

[JoRo]

Yes I agree, sometimes they might fool around with Mother Nature too much
Albeit it must be very complicated at times

I only hope that i am long gone by then........if i die i want it to be quick rather than long and boring, knowing im gonna die

[EMCF]

I only hope that i am long gone by then........if i die i want it to be quick rather than long and boring, knowing im gonna die

Long and boring? Try long and painful. Either way, we can't last forever.

[JoRo]

Long and boring? Try long and painful. Either way, we can't last forever.

Yea but still, to die from an infection of some sort you know wont be curable? Or you find it isnt?

[Jared]

There is a theory that the more and more we mess around with antibiotics and vaccines and stuff, that newer more resistant infections and virus' can service, or ive read and heard of it. What do you think? What if someday a infection came out that was deady and contagious?

There are some already.

Ebola

AIDS

HIV

Bubonic Plague. (yes, the Black Plague of the middle ages is still floating around).


We have no cure for these. We have just eliminated the conditions in which they are most liely to be caught.

[JoRo]

You are right, I'm just thinking and all, what if something like the black plague hit all of the world, and not just Europe? What do you think we would do? or the world would do for that matter (those of us that are left........)

[EMCF]

You are right, I'm just thinking and all, what if something like the black plague hit all of the world, and not just Europe? What do you think we would do? or the world would do for that matter (those of us that are left........)

Well, it doesn't just "spread". You need fairly squalid conditions. I think, correct me if I'm wrong Jarid, the Black Death is still in some less developed parts of Asia. Last september in fact some guy died of it in China.

[JoRo]

Well, it doesn't just "spread". You need fairly squalid conditions. I think, correct me if I'm wrong Jarid, the Black Death is still in some less developed parts of Asia. Last september in fact some guy died of it in China.

Do you have a link or source? Seems interesting to me.

[EMCF]

Do you have a link or source? Seems interesting to me.

Here you go: http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsst...2004/story.htm

[JoRo]

Here you go: http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsst...2004/story.htm

How do they "supress" it?

[Alastor]

Yeah, that actually does happen. I learned about it in Bio in college. Insects already are adapting.

Part of the problem is how we go about it though. We try to fight everything (from illness to insects) with chemical compounds. What we need to actually be doing, rather than trying to find all these drugs that treat symptoms instead of cure the problem, is work on the molecular level.

Seriously, once things like human tissue can be made and replace the old, and once we have the "nano-robots" doctors want to use that can hunt down single cells in the body and identify and get rid of harmful ones...

Then we'll no longer have to be jacking nature up on crack, and we can actually cure that stuff.

Presuming we're allowed to do reasearch in those areas that is.

[EMCF]

Yeah, that actually does happen. I learned about it in Bio in college. Insects already are adapting.

Part of the problem is how we go about it though. We try to fight everything (from illness to insects) with chemical compounds. What we need to actually be doing, rather than trying to find all these drugs that treat symptoms instead of cure the problem, is work on the molecular level.

Seriously, once things like human tissue can be made and replace the old, and once we have the "nano-robots" doctors want to use that can hunt down single cells in the body and identify and get rid of harmful ones...

Then we'll no longer have to be jacking nature up on crack, and we can actually cure that stuff.

Presuming we're allowed to do reasearch in those areas that is.

Nano-Robots? Go ask the christians, this could be offend them in some abstract way. I mean, who cares if it could potentially save lives, the man in the sky says "no".

[Alastor]

I wouldn't think there'd be any religious issue with it, except for those that refuse medical treatment based on religious beliefs now.

Of course, one would think the same thing of Stem-cells and the like too at first glance... so who knows.

To be honest, it doesn't really matter. The technology is almost there. One day it'll be a reality whether they like it or not. The only influence those it might offend (just as in the case of cloning or stem-cells) is whether the US is the leader of that technology or whether one of our enemies is.

::shrug::

So it's really kind of moot, except for in-so-far as they might hold us back from remaining the leaders of the world. But the world will have that knowledge regardless.

The genie doesn't go back in the bottle.