News WHO Declares First 21st Century Pandemic

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But still, diseases that infected our ancestors will infect us. Bubonic plague GREATLY reduced the European population in the 14th century, and we have used antibiotics to fight against such diseases in the 20th century. But still, there are cases of bubonic plague in the 21st century. Again, once emerged, a disease will never go away from the human race until the extinction of the race itself! The only way to see the world without sickness is to see the world without the human race. This is one of the reasons people are travelling to the remote places like Ladakh, Tibet, Sahara etc.

The last sentence will likely be true, but the rest is pretty much assuming a static humanity which does not evolve, just like its microscopic opponents.

Again, people have written about many weird symptoms centuries ago, that have no known modern day counterpart. And one possible explanation is simply, that the illnesses died with their hosts.

We have zoonoses, which rely on certain animals to carry them AND on humans to get into closer contact with those animals (like MERS). Again, this depends on human behaviour, nobody is forced to have close contact to young camels without antibodies to that disease (older camels are not reserviors for the MERS virus)

There are so many variables involved, that it is highly doubtful, that diseases can not disappear in the history books. Just like new diseases will appear. And we did not die yet, despite modern medicine being just about 100 years old....
 
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