Pandemics

... and contagious. So it has already been done, to answer your question, if only to a slightly smaller degree, but only as a biomedical research for pandemics. However, in bioterrorism, we have to understand that the potential is there. This can work to our advantage, many researchers indicate that ...

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... the better to spread the viral offspring - the disease gets milder over time. This is the one major biological gaffe a lot of fiction makes. Pandemics, really bad ones, rarely have a mortality rate above 15%.

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1) Even though big populations make huge pandemics possible, they also offer a vast diversity in our genetic code. Basically this means that there is a chance of some virus wiping out a big portion of the human race, but not all of us, since ...

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... global warming but unlikely with created new life. Our immune system has been here for an awful long time and has coped so far with all pandemics caused by foreign proteins. And if some creature were to be produced that did remove all of mankind it is very unlikely that it would remove ...

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... it would be hard to know precisely, especially if you mean over the centuries and not just in recent history. Certainly there have been major flu pandemics, but under normal circumstances, influenza kills mostly the very young or the very old. But maybe over centuries influenza would be the "winner." ...

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