• Question: which is the most dangerous disease?

    Asked by to Amy, Anita, Daryl, Nimesh, Sandra on 26 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Anita Thomas answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      Honestly, it has to be the one that kills you!

      But – and I admit that I’m biased here – every death involves the heart stopping, so that has to be it.

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      Amy Monaghan answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      Hey Jimc3cory

      If you mean the most dangerous disease as in which kills you the fastest, that would probably be a virus like meningitis, or a bacterial disease like anthrax which can kill you within an day of symptoms onset if untreated.

      But more dangerous are probably diseases that we can see but now can’t be treated because of problems such as antibiotic resistance – such as MRSA and VRSA (vancomycin resistant staphlyococcus aureus).

      If you mean which disease kills the most people – historically this is the flu, but in the modern era AIDS, cancer and heart disease are the biggest killers in the modern and developed worlds.

      Hope this answers your question!

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      Daryl Jones answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      Well it’s hard to say what the most dangerous is.
      But I know of one disease called Nigleria Fowleri. It lives in warm lakes, like the ones found here in Florida. When you swim, it can go up your nose and into your brain! If that happens, there’s a 95% chance of dying! So it’s very hard to cure and very dangerous!!!

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