Re: Notable SF Future Diseases
On Mar 31, 11:03 am, c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chris Thompson) wrote:
In article <KZ6Ij.36627$J41.11...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,Joel Olson <joel_ol...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Do any memorable future plagues/diseases come to mind?
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Years of Rice and Salt
Cheating! That's a *past* plague (in an alternate history) :-)
In James Morrow's City of Truth there was an AIDs like disease, which
the protagonists son got from getting bitten by a rabbit. I am not
sure whether that counts as "future" though.
The latest issue of Years best SF had a short story about a Kuru-like
disease that passed along in a religious ritual.
(Maybe it was Kuru?---The human equivalent of Mad cow?)
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Relevant Pages
- Former Anti-C Drug Doesnt Pay Enough To Treat Sleep-Sickness of Poor
... it's better to have a disease that afflicts the rich. ... Why the Youngest AIDS Victims Suffer Most ... Why One Million Africans a Year Die of Malaria ... New York Times editorial about the push for new pediatric AIDS drugs, ...
(sci.med.diseases.cancer) - Re: just finished reading "And the band played on".....
... The only reason I entered this stupid thread was to counter your asinine suggestions that since hospitals make a lot of money, they should be funding the research. ... My assertion was that back in the early 80s, the really early days from 81-84, there was plenty of money available - enough to do the job- of identifying the nature and causes of AIDS - at hospitals, research centers, universities, etc. ... I'm saying that it in hindsight, we probably couldn't have stopped the progression of AIDS because of the nature of the disease and politics within the homosexual community at that time. ... You just cannot handle the fact that the Reagan administration was one of the many bungling parties on this one. ...
(rec.sport.football.college) - Re: Pope attacks blurring of gender
... thumbs didn't evolve to handle tools, but people use them to do so.>>> ... Somehow catch a disease from the act of observing a naked body? ... You misunderstand - from the late 1990s, AIDS spread *more rapidly* ... among heterosexuals than homosexuals, ...
(rec.arts.drwho) - Marriage versus Fornication
... Marriage versus Fornication ... Since AIDS is infectious and fatal, ... the prime cause of this deadly disease is promiscuity. ... perception of sexual relationships, has also shielded the Muslim world from ...
(soc.culture.iranian) - Marriage versus Fornication
... Marriage versus Fornication ... Since AIDS is infectious and fatal, ... the prime cause of this deadly disease is promiscuity. ... perception of sexual relationships, has also shielded the Muslim world from ...
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