• Question: What is the most dangerous disease known so far?

    Asked by dobius to MarkF, Mark, Michael, Panos, Sarah on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Panos Soultanas answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      There are many dangerous and deadly diseases. One that comes to mind is the haemolytic disease caused by the Ebola virus.

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      Mark Fogg answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I think the HIV virus, it causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), is probably the worst. It damages the body’s immune system so badly that many other nasty infections can take hold and eventually kill you.

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      Mark Travis answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Well, there are a lot of diseases out there that kill you…. and you can’t get much more dangerous than that! I guess infectious diseases that can kill you (like the Ebola virus) are particulary dangerous as they can spread and kill many, many people.

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      Michael Loughlin answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I would have to say either HIV as it is so widely spread, hard to kill and 20 million people died in the last few years from it…Cholera because its a horrendous disease linked closely with poverty and lack of clean water or a future flu where we ahve the killing power of bird flu ( 60 out of 100 people would die who go it) with the inmfective power of human flu

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      Sarah Burl answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Depends what you call dangerous. If you mean kills you the quickest than something like Ebola virus which kills in 2 weeks would probably be the one, but if you mean the one that stays around a long time giving it the possibility t traansmit to many more people than something tlike the Ebola virus then I would say something like HIV.

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