How much longer will we survive..?
 

New strain of e-coli killed 18 across Europe
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...for-cause.html

Now cows are after us
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/scientists-...232525287.html

OK you can of course argue that 18 from a 6 billion population is so miniscule it barely registers as a percentage, but these new strains of various nasty bugs are the fault of man surely? No? Are we destined to self destruct in a kind of Will Smith "Legend" type of way (for those who've not seen the film man creates a cure for cancer which mutates and turns people into raging zombie type creatures)?

Discuss if you can be arsed

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^^^ This.

I think it's meant to happen two weeks Wednesday. You heard it here first and you have been warned. Don't say I didn't tell you.

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kidding me right? just bloody renewed my car tax last week! FFS!

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Its inevitable, like the salinity of the ocean everything must balance (another apocolypitic film refercence) Overpopulation will be cured by war or disease, its always been the way and not just with our speciese its just a matter of when.

Quite like the I am legend idea though, (as long as Im a winner).

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Hellfire and brimstone!

Ahh well, I'm of the non OCD variety of people, who pick their nose, scratch their ar$e and generally don't go overboards with the 'must wash hands' after everything from touching the cat/dog, to well picking my nose :lol:

IMO, theres more and more serious strains of bugs, because theres a stupid amount of hygiene control these days.....back in my day, of being a kid, we'd play in fields, climb trees, eat our tea without washing hands, with fingernails full of mud from playing out all day. We didn't have anti bacterial sprays for everything from the kitchen to the bog...and the boys used to throw worms in girls hair.

We need more muck around the place!!

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I think the press scaremonger, yes these things are about and COULD be bad but likelyhood is most people will be fine, there will be an unlucky few but we will be fine, just look at Swine Flu, that was compared to the great flu epidemic of the 1900's that killed millions but that never happened. People these days are scared of everything, we as a species feel the need to quantify and control everything but sometimes you have to hold you hands up and say i have no idea what is going to happen!

Agree with DB on the cleanliness thing, people aren;t exposed enough to dirt and bugs so when they do get them full on it catastophic rather than a minor illness!

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+1000

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bang on dizz-
time to get back to basics me thinks

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I can just see some Geneticaly Modified food debate starting over all this... which will turn into we 'COULD' all be doomed... but probably won't be. :rolleyes:

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+200,000,000