Here’s some exciting nightmare fuel for ya:

Are We At The Dawn Of The Age of Epidemics?

It seems there are quite a number of interesting fatal diseases romping across the planet just now. The list of course ends with MRSA and antibiotic resistance, which IMO may well lead to one of the worst spells in recent human history.

One of my favorite lines:

At this point, the U.S. Center for Disease Control is not recommending that anyone change their travel plans because of MERS.

MERS is, of course the New Hotness in plagues, the one springing up from Arabia and surrounding regions. One can hope that the CDC isn’t  recommending changes in travel plans because nobody in their right mind would travel to Arabia anyway, plague or no plague.