Statistics from the World Health Organisation
EBOLA CASES: 396
EBOLA DEATHS: 202
The Daily Express, Ted Hughes, Health Correspondent, from his article entitled The Race We Didn't Know We Were Losing
Despite all the advancements of the human race we have still not uncovered a cure for the common cold. While farmers force feed copious amounts of antibiotics to cattle in the never-ending quest to produce ever-larger specimens, and encourage deformities in animals to satisfy our own grotesque needs, we are ultimately strengthening disease and weakening ourselves in the process. [These] drugs then pass into the human food chain. Farmers have long known that bacteria and viruses can evolve at a much faster rate than other organisms. We are providing a species capable of rapid evolution with the resources it needs to develop faster than we can combat them with ever-stronger antibiotics.
Sooner or later we are going to fail to provide the right drug at the right time, and each day that passes we are drawing ever-closer to that moment.
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Dr Jenny Packer, Oxford University, transcript of her lecture Why You Should Be Worried About The Plague
The spread of Spanish influenza in the nineteen twenties was truly prodigious. It can be matched only by the Plague in the fourteenth century, and the plague in the seventeenth. There is a cycle at work here. Whenever humanity reaches a certain level in regards to its population, the earth reacts and throws up a defence to protect itself. It is no coincidence that these moments occur precisely at the time our most significant cultural developments also occurred. Perhaps some of you think I'm looking at this with black dahlia-tinted glasses, that perhaps I actually want to see this information. Well, let me show you the facts. Take a look at this graph.
(Audience gasps and mumbles.)
This graph shows the greatest pandemics in our species' history. With genetics and DNA testing we have been able to deduce that we as a species have undergone a huge external transitional change every few hundred years. And each time, it was worse. These are warnings. These are warnings from Mother Nature that we are approaching the precipice and that one of these days we're going to go running over it.
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