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The stuff that's going to happen over the next century.

 
 
roger
 
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Reply Fri 6 Feb, 2004 04:31 pm
I believe that happened with one strain of ebola, patiodog.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Fri 6 Feb, 2004 05:02 pm
Sure. Plenty of diseases that were plagues in the ancient world may well be low-grade endemic diseases now.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Fri 6 Feb, 2004 05:11 pm
There's a book (a little old now) called "Rats, Lice, and History" (I think, read it a year or two ago, sozobe's recommendation, I think) that gives a bit of a history of infectious disease. There have been great refinements in immunology since then, but the generalizations still hold true.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sat 7 Feb, 2004 03:55 am
A good book, that. There's a newer one called Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond with similar stuff in it
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Wilso
 
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Reply Sat 7 Feb, 2004 06:16 am
I'd like to know the predictions of the so-called experts.
A few years ago two guys here published a book about this subject, looking at predictions over something like 50 years. What they found was that when predicting the future the "experts" are ALWAYS wrong.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Sat 7 Feb, 2004 09:29 am
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There's a newer one called Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond with similar stuff in it


A good book, that ... too. Think about it every time I look at that long latitude across Europe and Asia on a map.
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