We seem to be having an unual influx of "new" diseases and a resurgence of some particularly nasty old ones.
We have a new respiratory ailment, the enterovirus, that is affecting children at an alarming rate and with potentially deadly affects.
We have our first reported case of ebola, which has never been seen on our soil until this year.
I can only shudder to think what this years flu epidemoc will be like?
Then to add more fuel to the fire, consider the hypothetical possibility of these diseases and viruses mutating / merging with other more commonplace ailments to become a super strain, resistant to (almost) all treatments?
This may be the warning sign that the world is bracing for a major pandemic of biblical proportion.
OK, now I can relax and drink my coffee in peace!
