2007-01-10 06:53:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A better question is : Which one of them had syphilis?
How did diseases survive? Many diseases can't survive in hosts other than humans. Many others can only survive in humans and in short-lived arthropod vectors. The list includes typhus, measles, smallpox, polio, gonorrhea, syphilis. For these diseases to have survived the Flood, they must all have infected one or more of the eight people aboard the Ark.
Other animals aboard the ark must have suffered from multiple diseases, too, since there are other diseases specific to other animals, and the nonspecific diseases must have been somewhere.
Host-specific diseases which don't kill their host generally can't survive long, since the host's immune system eliminates them. (This doesn't apply to diseases such as HIV and malaria which can hide from the immune system.) For example, measles can't last for more than a few weeks in a community of less than 250,000 [Keeling & Grenfell, 1997] because it needs nonresistant hosts to infect. Since the human population aboard the ark was somewhat less than 250,000, measles and many other infectious diseases would have gone extinct during the Flood.
Some diseases that can affect a wide range of species would have found conditions on the Ark ideal for a plague. Avian viruses, for example, would have spread through the many birds on the ark. Other plagues would have affected the mammals and reptiles. Even these plague pathogens, though, would have died out after all their prospective hosts were either dead or resistant.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html
2007-01-10 06:57:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Forget about scurvy what exactly did they eat for 40 days rember every meal meant extinction for some species
2007-01-10 06:58:25 · answer #2 · answered by uncle J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah...God took the trouble of shutting the the door before the bottom fell out. I am sure he could handle a little scurvy if it broke out.
2007-01-10 07:01:11 · answer #3 · answered by woodu17 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eskimos live for years/life on just fish, and certainly do not have access to fresh fruits and veggies and don't get scurvy. That makes me wonder more.
2007-01-10 13:58:10 · answer #4 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yar har har, as long as they had some citrus fruit on board, they need not worry about the scurvy. Arrrrgh!
2007-01-10 07:01:35 · answer #5 · answered by naughtypiraterachel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-02 02:29:08 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since i dont have it I dont know what scurvy is
2007-01-10 06:57:57 · answer #7 · answered by TULSA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Naw - his Son was such a fruit he could cure scurvy!!
2007-01-10 07:00:01 · answer #8 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
obviously not. i think 7 pairs of clean animals and 1 pair of unclean animals was enough to worry about dont u?
2007-01-10 06:59:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were lost out to sea with olives.
2007-01-10 06:59:57 · answer #10 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋