The disease one is pretty silly. How awful, now that we've eliminated smallpox and have cures for tuberculosis, malaria, and all the other major killers of huma

The disease one is pretty silly. How awful, now that we've eliminated smallpox and have cures for tuberculosis, malaria, and all the other major killers of humanity we are "increasingly concerned by new rather subtle diseases (SARS, HIV, BSE etc,) which are very difficult to understand, often difficult to diagnose or only become apparent long after the infection, and which often seem to originate through some change introduced by modern practices, such as use of antibiotics on farm animals or a change in the practices used in preparing meat." Except new diseases have been constantly arising through human history and those examples arise from the usual ancient zoonotic transmission routes: eating wild meat and living in close proximity with animals. (With the exception of BSE, which inherently will never be anything but an extremely trivial disease.) The only thing 'modern' or 'complex' about them is the names, and that medicine has advanced past witchcraft and is able to notice them.