Exciting New Global Pandemic Promises Universal Doom

Link: The dilemma of a deadly disease: patients may be forcibly detained | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited.

More than 300 cases of the highly infectious disease, which is spread by airborne droplets and kills 98% of those infected within about two weeks, have been identified in South Africa.

(((Wait a minute – a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis that kills people in TWO WEEKS? How can that possibly be true? I can't even get through my blogroll in two weeks! This is sci-fi disaster-catastrophe territory: ninety-eight percent of us will be dead by 2008 and the survivors will be coughing up chunks of lung as we thumb through vintage paperbacks of George Stewart's EARTH ABIDES.... So much for that carbon-emissions problem... Paging Mr Cascio, your Apocalypse Rating Scale is waiting on line one...)))