Scariest Emerging Viruses Around the World

I'm on my iPhone so forgive this muted post but I want to bring this to ATS. Apparently, Ebola and Mers aren't the only viruses that we need to worry about.

Can't post a quote with my iPhone but it's a very short read. I had an argument with another poster here on Ats about viruses recently where I predicted an increase in viruses and their potency as the environment warms. Unfortunately, I feel vindicated by this news. What says Ats

www.yahoo.com...

Some of the oncoviruses are causing us a lot of problems in this country.

This one seems kind of pertinent to what I am seeing out there. en.wikipedia.org...

a reply to: lostbook

I was thinking of starting my own Thread on this.

Go here and you will see clearly where, when and how many with an upto date Map of cases of all diseases being reported.

It is pretty scary when you see it like this. I can't embed the map here so you have to go to the site.

www.healthmap.org

Managed to get a copy of the reported cases from the last week alone.


606 Vectorborne Alerts
Chikungunya (70), Dengue (329), West Nile Virus (161), Eastern Equine Encephalitis (19), St. Louis Encephalitis (2), Japanese Encephalitis (2), Malaria (10), Zika virus (2), Lyme Disease (2), Plague (4), Ross River Virus (2), Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (2), Tick-borne disease (1)
598 Hemorrhagic Alerts
Ebola (597), Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (1)

216 Animal Alerts
Other Animal Disease (3), Foot and Mouth (12), Canine distemper (2), Avian Influenza (16), Peste des petits ruminants (1), Equine Herpes Virus (2), Anthrax (16), African Swine Fever (24), Bluetongue (124), Animal Die-off (1), Parvovirus (4), Vesicular Stomatitis (6), Classical Swine Fever (4), Equine Infectious Anemia (1)

186 Respiratory Alerts
Tuberculosis (9), Respiratory Illness (5), Whooping Cough (16), Influenza (13), Cold (16), Enterovirus 68 (68), Coronavirus (4), Avian Influenza H7N9 (9), Swine Flu H1N1 (21), MERS (7), Respiratory Syncytial Virus (11), Hantavirus (5), Swine Flu H3N2 (2)

111 Gastrointestinal Alerts
Gastroenteritis (5), Diarrhea (7), Norovirus (7), Cholera (18), E. coli (16), Waterborne Illness (23), Listeriosis (4), Salmonella (11), Foodborne Illness (4), Hepatitis A (2), Vibrio vulnificus (3), Hepatitis E (5), Campylobacter (1), Hepatitis (1), Protozoa, miscellaneous (1), Shigellosis (1), Rotavirus (1), Cryptosporidium (1)

108 Fever/Febrile Alerts
Enterovirus (94), Typhoid (3), Fever (7), Strep (1), Mumps (2), Q Fever (1)

87 Neuro Alerts
Meningitis (9), Polio (35), Meningitis - Neisseria (3), Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (1), Rabies (32), Bacterial Meningitis (1), Botulism (4), Food-related toxin (2)

68 Other Alerts
Chronic/Non-Infectious Disease (9), Not Yet Classified (11), Poisoning (7), Pests (12), Vaccine Complication (4), Undiagnosed (12), Conjunctivitis (6), Other Plant Disease (4), Other Human Disease (3)

49 Skin/Rash Alerts
Leprosy (3), Measles (30), Scabies (5), Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (6), Leishmaniasis (4), Tularemia (1)

8 STD Alerts
HPV (2), HIV/AIDS (3), Sexually Transmitted Infection (1), Syphilis (2)

5
C. difficile (1), Antibiotic resistance (1), MRSA (1), Klebsiella pneumoniae (2)

3 Environmental Alerts
Algae (1), Environmental (2)
1253 alerts for Alerts from past week

a reply to: TruthxIsxInxThexMist

Is that all? I'm not worried...end sarcasm.

a reply to: TruthxIsxInxThexMist

This just confirms to me that Ebola, while it may be bad, is hardly the only threat. And for the same reason, it's not worth getting super worried about, because there's half a dozen thousand other viruses out there competing for us, and we're still alive.

Here (Puerto Rico) right now at least we're having an almost outbreak of chikingunya with more than 2,500 cases and 1,500 suspected cases and is well documented over the news