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To: zonder who wrote (6244)1/26/2004 12:26:11 PM
From: redfish  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
Look what a few hundred deaths from SARs did to Hong Kong, and imagine it coming back every year. It wouldn't take too much to throw the modern world into chaos.

Also I don't think you can assume that modern medicine is all good and no bad. Eradicating smallpox was a wonderful thing, saved millions of lives, but if smallpox were to be unleashed again, the effects would be worse than ever because most of us have never been exposed to it and lack natural immunity.

Every year we come up with a vaccine to counter the latest strain of flu. I think it is reasonable to say that this will result in natural selection favoring those mutations that are least susceptable to our vaccines. We have seen a point of diminishing returns with antibiotics, who is to say the same may not happen with vaccines, and that someday we may reach into our quiver and find that we are all out of arrows.
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