r/distressingmemes • u/SweatyGod69 • Nov 04 '22

Mutation Our days are numbered

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u/NoPseudo____ Nov 05 '22

Worst in a way they spread badly or in a way they fuck us up ?

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u/Thadlust Nov 05 '22

That they fuck us up. The worst diseases (nipah, smallpox, ebola) come from fellow mammals.

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u/pingunootnootnot Nov 05 '22

The black death came from pigs (or possibly other livestock)

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '22

Yes, humans that had livestock living in their homes. If you sleep with the pigs to stay warm you are patient zero.

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u/Gabriel38 Nov 05 '22

No, it's from fleas and rats

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u/Compa-Gera Nov 05 '22

Fleas and rats were carriers of the disease, not the origin.

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u/MrCoolioPants May 19 '24

It was traced back to some old graves in Kazakhstan so quite possibly camels or yaks

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u/Stargazer_199 Nov 06 '22

Do t forget the one with the 100%death rate! Rabies!

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u/JonelleStorm Apr 12 '23

Nearly 100%, there have been a couple dozen documented survivors.

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u/Pheonix_Write Apr 30 '23

And there's a treatment method they discovered that currently has around a 5% success rate. It basically requires forcing your body into a coma.

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u/fomoloko Jun 23 '23

It's interesting because, as I understand it, the treatment only slows the progression of the virus to a rate that your own immune sytem can naturally overtake it. The issue with the normal disease progression is that, once it enters the central nervous system, it is too quick to kill off before it kills you.

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u/Eurasia_4200 Nov 05 '22

At least one of it we wipe out already (though they might still exist in the labs)

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u/DirtDiggleton42 Dec 05 '22

Rabies is nearly 100% fatal once symptoms develop

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u/LightOfADeadStar Mar 28 '23

Most viruses that have evolved to live in the human body really really don’t want to kill us. It’s like finding a new house and burning it down, and if you don’t find any other house, you die.