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Asked by kayacato to Lyn, Katy, Paul, PB, Ruth on 21 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by jackpegram.
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Peter Balfe answered on 21 Jun 2013:
Excellent question! We need to define danger. Number of people killed, amount of human misery caused, risk to populations? The biggest diseases in history were probably things like the black death and 1918 spanish flu. The government’s COBRA guidelines put an emergent unknown influenza as the highest risk today. I’d probably go with that…
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Ee Lyn Lim answered on 24 Jun 2013:
The most dangerous diseases are probably the ones we can’t cure yet 😉 If we don’t have a cure and we know it can kill you, then it is dangerous – doesn’t matter if it’s a new strain of flu or a deadly genetic disease! Of course, if it’s something that can spread, it’s more of a worry. But once we invent a cure, it stops being dangerous!
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Katy Brown answered on 24 Jun 2013:
In terms of the most dangerous disease for one person to catch, there are lots which are still always fatal. I think the one I’d least like is anthrax – it’s infectious, so you need to be isolated, it’s almost always fatal, and it has a whole host of terrible symptoms. Luckily, it’s extremely rare.
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Paul Waines answered on 25 Jun 2013:
Ebola virus- bleeding from every hole in your body (and inside)? no thanks…
there are also some pretty nasty types of flu out there
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