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Originally Posted by renormalised
It's happening now, with antibiotic resistant TB and other bacterial infections...much of it caused by the doctors overprescribing antibiotics in the past (and their misuse by both doctors and patients). Plus, the use of antibiotics in animal feeds. There will come a time when something does turn up that they can't get rid of. Then we'll be back to square one.
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We were discussing this at work the other day. As we were all 'tradies'
I guess we were unqualified to ponder such huge concepts as viral
research
, but in a nutshell our conversation and logic was this:
Humans have been on the earth for many millions of years.
Over this time frame virii (sp?) and bacteria have also had a chance
to evolve/ mutate.
In that time frame wouldn't a virus mutate a strain to wipe us out
as a species? 100 % mortality?
Why, in just a small comparative window of decades does another
strain of some virus appear that, if not for just that slight missing
factor, be that killer virus?
Steve