Cancerous Thoughts on Cantagious Cancer

Nobody Remembers

We haven’t seen a good plague lately, but I can speak from experience: You don’t want to catch a killer flu.

Last year, I caught some kind of flu. I coughed for weeks and there were times the cough was so bad, I swore that if I had been any older, it would have killed me. I’m not one to get flu shots, and I take my chances, but to this day, I don’t know what I got, but it was much worse than pneumonia, and I’ve had that twice.

Yes, H.G. Wells had it right: the tiniest creatures can lay you flat. And odds are, among everything we have to worry about, the pandemic is right up there on the top of the list. You are more likely to die of some mutated bug than an asteroid, even though NASA is praying. And you KNOW…Obamacare will make us all sicker.

Did you know that so many people died in the Black Death, in today’s population estimates, it would be as if one billion people left the earth?  In terms of scale, about the population of China.

The worst flu pandemic of the last 100 years happened in 1918. and has been called the great Pandemic of Spanish Flu because one of its first high profile victims was the King of Spain. Of all the people on Earth (1.6 billion at the time) almost a third were infected. More soldiers died of the flu in the autumn of 1918 than as a result of combat in the entire war.

The Spanish flu killed within hours.

We’ve had all kinds of scares since then: AIDS and Ebola being two of the most devastating, and mad cow. How many cows, chickens and pigs have been killed just in the last 25 years? That tells you something doesn’t it? It’s the little virus that can decimate your country.  But here’s the one that frightens me the most: Contagious Cancer.

From  the book: Megacatastrophies:

Beyond environmentally related cancer lies the still more frightening prospect of transmissible cancer a form that could be passed on from one person to another like an infectious disease. Cancers of this type have already been seen in some other animal species.

Yes, in…you will not believe this: the Tasmanian devil, a large Australian Rodent has a cancer that spreads like a virus.

 It’s a facial tumor disease DFTD, a transmissible parasitic cancer. And once infected the Tasmanian devils develops lumps and stuff on the face and body witch interferes with feeding so they starve to death. The population of Tasmanian devils had plummeted by seventy percent since 1996 and as of 2010 about 80 percent of the population was infected by the disease.

So, cancer CAN be transmitted, which makes you wonder if the CIA has developed a strain of cancer that can be transmitted, and they really did kill Hugo Chavez?

Nobody Knows…but  a cancer spreading like the flu? That would be just as bad as any WMD.

I think I’ll write NASA and tell them they need to add cancer to their prayer list…and pray for those poor little Tasmanian Devils.

March 21, 2013 Posted by Joyanna Adams | Uncategorized | Black Death, Cantagious Cancer, History, Pandemics, Spanish Flu, Tasmanian Devil | 3 Comments