My sad thoughts are;-
As we humans become more crowded in a crowded World, so do pathogens.
This allows them to crosslink and breed with ever crowded ease.
A self-replicating pathogen could destroy civilization within weeks.
I had an E-mail asking me what a self replicating pathogen was?.
Its a good question, that I cant answer.
But if self replicating means= 'manmade' -I dont know of any.
Any new pathogens are kept, out of sight in some Govermental Research Lab, ar'nt they?
Like the recent Blue Tongue that may have escaped from a UK Lab recently?
The nearest bacteria that might replicate, could be E. Coli?
Which is notorious for its fast reproduction. Its everywhere- in our intestines, gut, and food, and spread by contact.
There is so much around that its relatively benign.
But Escherichia Coli:, like the Pandemic Flue of 1918, could self-mutate and kill millions, unless you were lucky enough to have some natural immunity.
Both could upset our modern civilization as we know it, for quite sometime, dependent upon the severity of the outbreak?
