9 Ways The World Might End

Ways the World Might End: DiseaseWE GET INFECTED WITH VIRUSES
A deadly virus flare-up as widespread as the plot of Outbreak or Contagion might seem far-fetched, but it pretty much already happened. More than once. Between 1918 and 1920, the Spanish Influenza Pandemic killed more than 50 million people worldwide. In the 14th century, the Bubonic Plague killed 1 out of 3 Europeans. Want another reason to worry? Last March 19 monkeys died and three humans fell ill with pneumonia at the California National Primate Research Center in Davis, California. It was the first case of an adenovirus — which are responsible for colds and respiratory infections in humans — moving from monkeys to humans. (Translation: Viruses are always mutating…)