Epidemics

... one of us might do something crazy, compared to Nature which we think works slowly (colliding asteroids)? What however is slow about the plague epidemics or about the next pandemic flu virus?

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... managing their population on the basis of their food resources. Population was regulated not by elimination of the weak through factors like epidemics or starvation, but by instinctive control mechanisms. In other words, animals controlled their numbers not by fierce competition, as Darwin ...

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One of my ideas is based on a virus, that we suppos could wipe out humanity. Jesper, this virus must to distroy or at least to attack nerve cells - for distortion there function. But, at this case for this virus quate difficalt to tranmit from each ather - it is possibly by blood, or also you can t...

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The premise is flawed, based upon an assumption about epidemics that doesn't fit reality. Major epidemics of dangerous diseases are restricted to large population pockets - to work out to "thinner" populations requires less virulent variants. ...

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... a bit drastic neh?). But i can't write without facts, so would somebody please direct me somewhere else, or if you could tell me of different epidemics over the centuries? I would like to know the main ones, and the structure of the bacterias, viruses. Too learn how they worked, or work, to ...

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