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DISEASE X Global pandemic of mystery disease could wipe out humanity, top scientists warn
The Sun UK ^ | March 10, 2018 | Jamie Seidel

Posted on 03/10/2018 9:12:57 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain

THE World Health Organisation keeps a list of dangerous diseases which pose a serious threat of outbreak.

During a high-level meeting of the best medical scientists in the world, they added another to the high-risk list: The ominously named "Disease X".

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: disease; diseasex; epidemic; health; pandemic
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Syria — after promising to hand over all its chemical weapons several years ago — is once again being accused of unleashing toxic substances against its own population in towns and suburbs under the control of rebel forces.

That's impossible. Obama worked out that deal and the world has never known such a brilliant diplomat and problem solver. It was as air tight and unbreakable as the Iran nuke agreement.

21 posted on 03/10/2018 9:24:59 AM PST by Will88
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Chicken Little has a graduate degree.


22 posted on 03/10/2018 9:25:21 AM PST by Track9 (If you want peace, kill your enemies.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Disease X, like the Steele Dossier, is a figment of the imagination.


23 posted on 03/10/2018 9:25:32 AM PST by libh8er
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To: Ciaphas Cain

They’re talking about Captain Trips.

Someone’s taking Stephen King’s The Stand horror masterpiece waay too seriously.


24 posted on 03/10/2018 9:25:54 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever) I)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Global Warming will cause the spread of Disease X.


25 posted on 03/10/2018 9:26:05 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Ciaphas Cain

They are not referring to a known disease. That’s why they call it X.

As populations and globalization increase the risk from disease spreading increases. Of course over time I would think our bodies would become hardened as everyone gets increasingly exposed to whatever is being passed around. Of course if some brand new or previously unknown disease emerges it will get spread faster than in the past etc etc

In summary — it is a theoretical discussion designed to get hits.


26 posted on 03/10/2018 9:26:23 AM PST by plain talk
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To: I want the USA back

Humanity as we know it now will be long gone well before 5 billion years are past.

It will evolve into something else and populate the stars, go extinct, or be taken to a higher plane (read Heaven).


27 posted on 03/10/2018 9:27:42 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Substitute “disease X” with “global warming”, “climate change”, “cultural appropriation”, “spotted owls”, “fracking”, and whatever else these progressives can use to scare the dollars out of you, and....

You get a lesson in what “fear mongering for control and profit” is all about.


28 posted on 03/10/2018 9:29:47 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: null and void

That is such an apt graphic.

The black death wiped out a third to a half of the population of Europe. As a result of it, people of European descent have a variant of the major histocompatibility complex that makes them less susceptible to certain infectious diseases. This variant occurs at a much lower frequency in populations from the rest of the world.

Oh, and, “I’m not dead yet!”


29 posted on 03/10/2018 9:30:37 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: I want the USA back
How many things “ ‘could’ wipe out humanity?”

I don't know about humanity, but I feel fairly confident that at some point within the next thirty years I'll find myself wiped out.

30 posted on 03/10/2018 9:31:41 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: BuffaloJack

You mean similar to the fake alarm - we will all die due to Global Warming. It’s all in the details as to exactly how we will bite the bullet.

Freeze while sitting on our front porch.
Drown from the rising seas.
Starve from growing famines.
Burn from solar flares.


31 posted on 03/10/2018 9:31:53 AM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: I want the USA back

What about volcanoes. Geesh. How could you forget about volcanoes. I am sooooo disappointed. </s>. Hee hee hee.


32 posted on 03/10/2018 9:32:26 AM PST by hawkaw
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To: donna
My global warming funds dried up. I need a new scare tactic to fill my pockets.
Bingo - we have a winner!
33 posted on 03/10/2018 9:33:45 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Or Plan 9


34 posted on 03/10/2018 9:33:51 AM PST by barbarianbabs
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Oh noes, we are all doomed I tell you.


35 posted on 03/10/2018 9:34:57 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: MayflowerMadam

To be fair, “Planet 9” is predicted to exist due to orbital perturbations in our solar system that point to a massive object in an irregular orbit. Those who have researched it predict that its orbital plane is likely 90 degrees offset from the rest of the solar orbital plane which would mean any impact or interaction with Earth would come from either the north or south pole were we aren’t actively monitoring for inbound objects.


36 posted on 03/10/2018 9:35:15 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

“Scientists discover the only way to kill Disease X bacteria is with Global Warming; Encourage people to: buy SUV’s, run their air conditioners, feed cows beer, pickled eggs and beans.”


37 posted on 03/10/2018 9:36:06 AM PST by moovova
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To: Alas Babylon!

Quite doubtful ALL humanity will be taken to Heaven.
Upon arriving some will only see a “No Vacancy” sign and not allowed to register.


38 posted on 03/10/2018 9:37:24 AM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
You misunderstood the article. They're saying that there is the possibility of an as yet unknown disease (Disease X) somewhere in nature that could possibly infect humans for which there is not yet any vaccine or cure.........

HIV is a classic example. Do a search on HIV's history, it actually goes back to around 1920. It's root is in two different strains of SIV found in monkeys that joined together to form a third virus that was able to infect humans......

39 posted on 03/10/2018 9:37:39 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

The WHO is peddling panic. There’s good money to be made in panic, maybe even more than cheeseburgers! BTW, I’m not talking ‘bout The WHO that was talking ‘bout my generation.


40 posted on 03/10/2018 9:37:59 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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