Pretty scary stuff ...
The Bible states before He comes again there will be:
Matt.24:7
[7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Aids, bird flu PANDEMIC - things like that.
Mark.13:8
[8] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Luke.21:11
[11] And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
As my Dad who was a Lutheran minster always said, you can't worry about it, all the signs of the end of the Earth have been present throughout history. We are no unique.