That’s nothing...
Lessee here..
I predict that a new disease will crop up in Asia or Africa, kill maybe 15 to 30 people, will be smeared all over the world’s media as the next OMG WERE ALL GONNA DIE disease, result in millions if not billions of dollars in spending on face masks, decontamination procedures, television specials, political pronouncements and be forgotten by December.
Eric Berger had a 2007 prediction ‘blog entry a year ago:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/12/your_turn_predi.html
I’d guess he’ll have one for 2008 pretty soon now:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/