Disease Killoff

[JAMES BASS]

Robin,
Your restriction makes it a bit 'iffy' but there is, of course, one species
that is capable of destroying itself...and many or all other species.  (One
need not get into the 'Fermi Paradox' implications of this...just read the
daily news.)  The 'iffy' part of your restriction is that medical science
accepts certain mental conditions as being 'disease'.  Collective
ignorance does not fall into this category.

One thing seems highly probable:  No other species on this planet
intentionally developed the ability to make itself go extinct.

That's not a 'disease...in the classical sense'  per se but there is
something pathological about it in the social psychological sense.
Jim Bass

Robin Leech wrote:
>   1. Disease Killoff
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> Date:    Sun, 20 May 2001 18:53:29 -0600
> From:    Robin Leech <releech at TELUSPLANET.NET>
> Subject: Disease Killoff
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> Does anyone know of a situation where a disease (in the classical sense =
> of bacteria, fungi, virus, etc.) has caused the extinction of another =
> organism?
> Robin Leech
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