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"One of medicine's worst nightmares is the development of a drug-resistant strain of severe invasive strep A," the article stated. Severe, invasive strep A killed Muppeteer Jim Henson in 1990; this vicious killer was on the rise.
Bacteria adapted to antibiotics because, while rapidly multiplying, bacteria mutated and changed slightly, just enough to have outwitted their combatant drugs.
Viruses, on the other hand, were usually tamed and sometimes even eradicated by the preventive vaccine. But the article pointed out that new viruses kept arising. Viruses that had gone undetected, inhabiting animal populations, could and did make the jump to humans. The Time article told us that was the case with some very lethal new African viruses such as Ebola, which made the jump from monkeys to humans.
Still, the biggest fear of all, as quoted in that late-20th-century Time Magazine article: "It isn't just new viruses that have doctors worried. Perhaps the most ominous prospect of all is a virulent strain of influenza. Every so often, a highly lethal strain emerges. Unlike HIV, flu moves through the air and is highly contagious. The last killer strain showed up in 1918 and claimed 20 million lives -- more than all the combat deaths in World War I. And that was before global air travel; the next outbreak could be even more devastating."
After we were in the Neotech World, it was very sad to look back at such Time Magazine articles and others that tried to warn us. When the human catastrophes began, many of us lost some of our very own loved ones, including our own children and grandchildren. A definitive antidote, however, rose to our rescue. The only antidote to the human catastrophes was: super rapidly advancing new technologies (Neotech). Only super rapidly advancing new technologies (Neotech) could win the race against super rapidly evolving infectious diseases, which had outpaced our vaccines and antibiotics.
As repeatedly warned throughout late 20th-century national media like Time Magazine, we were suddenly losing the race against infectious diseases, with mutant strains of old diseases returning after decades of "absence" and new diseases invading us with sudden terror. They warned that a medical defeat to microbes would bring with it human catastrophes like those experienced in the time of bubonic plague, polio, and killer flus like that in 1918 that infected over one billion people, half the world's population in 1918, and killed over 20 million people in 10 months. Never in the history of the world had there been so many deaths in such a short period of time. Man had never experienced anything close to that catastrophic pandemic since, but in the late 20th century, scientists feared a repeat was not far in coming.
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