Ths is how the apocalypse will begin.

[CathyInBlue]

Six Months After His Death, Doctors Determine the Alarming Cause: ?No Virus Like That Has Ever Been Identified in the Western Hemisphere? | TheBlaze.com

With a previously unknown virus appearing in the middle of nowhere.

 

[T.Lex]

As long as it stays in the middle of nowhere (Bourbon County, Kansas, probably counts) we're cool. When it is airborne in a dense population center, then it gets problematic.

But, I don't really disagree with your basic assertion - there are germs out there that can kill us that we haven't even found yet.

 

[dusty88]

With all the Tamiflu we are putting in the environment, my guess for "severe flu epidemic" is moving up the list. Unfortunately, it might coincide with the inability of the federal government to borrow more money, if we are unlucky.

 

[T.Lex]

Along those lines, I read that the flu has killed 11 USians this year. That's about 11x the number of ebola deaths in the US this year.

If the antibiotic-resistance increases, thatsa gonna be a problem.

 

[Leadeye]

When that starts I'm retiring again.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Maybe that..........or maybe giant ants.

 

[spencer rifle]

If the antibiotic-resistance increases, thatsa gonna be a problem.

Antibiotics are not useful for virus infections, only bacterial. Viruses commandeer the machinery of living cells from the inside, where antibiotics cannot reach them. It's always a race between the immune system and virus propagation. The loser dies.

 

[churchmouse]

Maybe that..........or maybe giant ants.

That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

 

[Trigger Time]

That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

Did that star Charlie chaplain?

 

[Win52C]

"Them" right...I loved that movie as a kid.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

"Them" right...I loved that movie as a kid.

I think I saw it on Sammy Terry back in the day, good times.

 

[T.Lex]

BBC News - Whooping cough proteins evolving 'unusually' fast

Whooping cough may be evolving to outsmart the currently used vaccine, say researchers.
Analysis of strains from 2012 shows the parts of the pertussis bacterium that the vaccine primes the immune system to recognise are changing.
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The "million dollar question" he said was what, if anything, could be done to improve the vaccine - which is still the best defence we have - and prevent future outbreaks.

In itself, whooping cough might not be particularly apocalyptic. Rather, it may be a case study in how bacteria evolve in response to vaccines.

 

[EdC]

"Them" right...I loved that movie as a kid.

I bought this movie, and love it. Peter Graves shot off the antennae from the very ant in the picture with a .38 snub, off hand, while running! James Whitmore finished it off with a Tommy Gun.

 

[Leadeye]

Did that star Charlie chaplain?

Nothing wrong with talkies.

 

[Earl]

I bought this movie, and love it. Peter Graves shot off the antennae from the very ant in the picture with a .38 snub, off hand, while running! James Whitmore finished it off with a Tommy Gun.

Personally I'm hoping for giant ants... At least we can shoot at them. A virus would just be boring.