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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2014-11-09 07:46:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2014-11-09 07:46:00

Mood: quixotic
Music: Miranda Lambert, "Little Red Wagon."

Something silly and sort of scary for a Sunday morning.

I (as Mira Grant) was asking to put together a list of potential pandemics for Buzzfeed. I like anything that gives me an excuse to wallow in delicious virology, so...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/orbitbooks/10-epidemics-waiting-to-happen-that-you-wonat-e-16hk

Enjoy, and remember, medical science is more interested in keeping you alive than it is in cutting you up and reassembling you as a shambling horror.

Most of the time.

Tags: making lists, mira grant, pandemic time, silliness

sarahfish

November 9 2014, 16:28:48 UTC 2 years ago

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I see polio is on that list. You may be interested in this article: Vaccine-Resistant Polio Discovered

Also a nit-pick, but Black Death was (is?) caused by Yersinia pestis -- a bacterium, not a virus. Though VIRUSES ARE CLEARLY SUPERIOR, DON'T GET ME WRONG. Not biased because I study viruses. Nope. Not at all.

seanan_mcguire

November 9 2014, 16:39:55 UTC 2 years ago

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Except that if you read the list, you will see that I subscribe to the school of thought which believes that the bubonic plague is NOT the Black Death, and that the Black Death was caused by a yet-unidentified hemorrhagic fever.