Combine all these facts with the knowledge that an infected person can travel more easily across the ocean than ever before, and you'll understand why doctors would just love for you to get your flu shot.The 1997 President’s Initiative on Race elicited numerous comments regarding its intent and focus. The best we can do is treat the symptoms and boost the body's natural defenses while we wait for our immune systems to do the heavy lifting. Newer, more impressive strains of the flu come every year, and despite our remarkable advances, we still can't cure viral infections. Overuse of antibiotics has made drug-resistant bacteria. Diseases are getting better at fighting back. Our ability to confront and contain diseases gets better all the time.
The good news first: You'll notice that those numbers keep getting smaller with time. AIDS has led to the deaths of at least 25 million. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic infected a third of the world and killed more than 50 million. A few of the all-stars: the Black Death killed between one third and one half of everyone in Europe in the 14th century. Historically, the only thing that's killed more humans than humans has been disease.
Heads up, folks, possible spoilers ahead. So what do the world's best and brightest say? Scientists have been trying to put a finger on how we're going to breathe our last since before they were called "scientists." Let's take a look at the strong odds, and whether or not there's any, you know, hope. Frequently, it's just cult leaders getting extra zany. Sometimes we do it in the form of a warning: "Change your ways or be doomed." Other times it's just the way televangelists stand out from the crowd, like the soothsaying apocalyptic version of wearing a particularly shiny paisley shirt to the club. Still, we humans are nothing if not gamblers. Sure, at an individual level, we've got things like heart disease, obesity, and car accidents to worry about, but from a wider perspective, we just can't know what will pound the final nail into humanity's collective coffin. It's hard to get around it: We're probably all pretty screwed, and we don't know why.
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