Is the world trying to create new and more powerful diseases to get rid of us?

Question

We harm the planet so i wonder if these new and more horrific diseases are a way of mother nature trying to get rid of us (a virus in effect) because we are damaging her?

Sounds a little strange, but something I have been considering for some time...

i think i should say that although we have had serious disease and plague in the past, we have cured them (with less technology and insight). New diseases seem to be appearing (HIV, bird flu, cancer etc) that we can't find an answer to. surely everything evolves with the best genes in order to survive? Even viruses and disease? Seems to me that everything is trying really hard to be incurable and therefore to get rid of us....?

still not convinced that it's co-incidence...

Answer 1

these other things are happening as a result of our living on earth. Some of the diseases will not be found if the humanbeing comes back after a centuary of extinction.

The diseases sometimes act as a natural selection tool and thus a consequence of the humanbeing living on the earth. Let's fight on may be we can leave a little longer than this.

Holla at you

Answer 2

A lot of these new dieses that were encountering are not new at all they have been around perhaps almost as long as life on this planet. Mainly in the jungles and rainforests. Until now there power and effectiveness at killing people was stopping them from spreading.

If someone in an isolated village was to contract a disease then the other villagers would also contract it. However because of the distance between villages if someone tried to leave, the effectiveness of the disease would have killed them before they reached another human too pass it on to.

In today’s world with an increasing population and faster and more effective ways of traveling and increased destruction of the rainforests people are coming into contact with these isolated diseases then hopping into cars and planes allowing them to reach other mass populations before the even know there ill and as such spreading these diseases around the world.

Answer 3

I don't believe the Earth is responsible for most of these new and more powerful diseases. It might be Gaia theory in the long run, but unfortunately all the evidence all stacks up against human actions once again.
MRSA (Methicyllin Resistant Streptococcal Aureas) is a depressing example. A massive and growing appetite for cheap chicken (particularly in the UK) has created a huge demand for factory-farmed chickens. The birds are packed so tightly together that farmers constantly feed them antibiotics in their food to avoid diseases wiping out the whole factory flock. These low-level uses of antibiotics form a perfect testing ground for diseases to find new ways to defeat antibiotics, and within years, to evolve new strains like MRSA. This "superbug" is resistant to all that medical science can throw at it, and an epidemic of it could be truly disastrous.

The higher you build the dam, the higher the water builds up behind it... someday the dam is guaranteed to burst.

From what I've read, the biggest reason for diseases becoming more powerful is industrialised, inorganic agriculture.

Answer 4

Gaia hypothesis, big in the 70's. But no, not really. We have always had nasty diseases- the plague, flu pandemics, leprosy, but nowadays we only worry about the newer ones that we can't treat, like HIV, and bird flu. Also, now the world is hugely overpopulated, so they spread further, and we hear about every new disease all over the world. Some diseases like cancer have always been with us, but used to be called different names. Remember, average life span is increasing, because people are surviving diseases that were previously fatal.

Answer 5

Nature abhors a vacuum, you have a large uniform population of animals (humans) who have no natural predators, and due to high mobility ease of spread, so it is only a matter of time before some virus evolves which can exploit this resource, the last time was the influenza pandemic which occurred after the 1st world war & killed more people than that war did

Answer 6

No, in fact some diseases like syphilis are actually less virulent than they were in the past!
Everything runs in cycles, that all. Each organism has a natural life span, and a natural span of time on earth. We develop, we peak, we tail off. Just try to see it as part of the natural rythym of things.

Answer 7

Diseases occur when our body reacts to some abnormality occuring in the body due to the invasion of some foreign body. Our bodies harbour a lot of microbes which are harmless and some which in fact help us. However, if our body turns on them then a disease results.

AIDS, Malaria, Hepatitis these and other diseases occur when our body reacts to the viruses and other microbes which cause them.

Answer 8

no, what is happening is this as we tear more and more rainforests and reguar wooded area to make room for houses, and the deeper we dig we are awakening microbes and things that have been buried for years noone knows also the microorganisms and bacteria the planets hold over the years, as you dig into this the animals sick and alsothe bacteria and microorganism and spores become air bourne and we and even the animals and plants get sick. they are not nrew they were laying hidden for years and these are a sign of the last days fo the end of the age.

Answer 9

The world or mother nature as you refer to it as has no consciousness so is not 'inventing' diseases. New forms of pathogen emerge through random mutations e.g. MRSA.

Answer 10

More like governments keeping the population down after all they could cure all known diseases today but let people die because of expence... what exactly is expence to them apart from greed?