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YEs, many animals do live long enough to have many litters. But eventually it is more effecient to die. Maybe it won't be that way forever as evolution continues. And I agree that Nature is not a person or god but for ease of communication I said it that way. I know that it is just an impersonal process of natural selection.
And yes, we have gotten off topic some. Like I said, I have an idea for a new thread.
Eventually animals die, by eating or disease or whatever. But that's not because it's more efficint. That's just the way it is.
Leprosy is caused by a bacteria I believe. The vast majority of people are immune to that bacteria, and some forms of it really isn't contagious at all. If you get treatment for it, then it stops being contagious all together.
If you get no treatment at all, then it can be contagious. Most cases are in really poor countries, where they likely don't get any treatment at all. Plus they have really horrible sanitation. In really poor countries, everything just spreads so much faster, because of general poor health and poor sanitation combined. Back before they had antibiotics, it might have made sense to separate them. Though today, the vast majority of cases can be cured.
On a side note, they have fairly effective vaccines against leprosy as well. If you get the vaccine, and practice basic hygiene, your chances of catching it are pretty slim.
I am not too worried about catching leprosy. I have gotten a vaccination for tetanus a few years ago when I cut my leg open in Hawaii when the garbage bag I was carrying broke and a broken dirty plate was in there slashed my leg open. That was a mess. I had to get stitches and I couldn't swim in the ocean for a few days.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/..._autism_doctor
:D Told you that people who think vaccines are dangerous are nothing more than nutjobs.
I don't follow. How does that article show that people who think vaccines are dangerous are nothing more than nutjobs?Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
I was thinking about posting that article as well.
Although while it can be discussed and considered, it doesn't say much about
vaccines in general and most certainly does not weigh heavy enough to decide
on a definite stance on any side in this debate, nor label one as crazy.