I was thinking their are several diseases that have ridiculously high mortality rates and high infection rates too.
AIDS, Ebola, Marburg etc etc
Also in biological warfare even deadlier ones have been created, and in one science experiment in Australia a perfectly harmless bacteria was turned into a lethal killer accidently.
What if their was a worldwide epedemic from 1950- onwards (where mass travel could infect the world or entire continents fairly instantaneously)? A modern day black death. How long could it rage before a cure was found or all people without natural immunisation died out?
A few aware governments could seal all their borders in time or remote countries being untouched maybe? How would this effect the balance of power amongst nations? Mongolia or New Zealand become world players perhaps?
The a few instances I can thing of the top of my head, the 1976(i think) outbreak in Zaire isn't controlled and a ebola outbreak spreads across Africa, then too Europe and N.America.
S.America, China, India, Australia and the Soviet Union are the major world players with western Europe losing 8/10s of its population and US/Canada 7/10s.
Or during the 1990s destruction of the Soviet Union a killer disease escapes from a Omsk biological research station devestating most of Asia.
I dunno Im just tossing round some ideas. I think a AH epedemic would be a good exscuse too randomly change the balance of power between nations and dramatically alter the world in a short time.
AIDS, Ebola, Marburg etc etc
Also in biological warfare even deadlier ones have been created, and in one science experiment in Australia a perfectly harmless bacteria was turned into a lethal killer accidently.
What if their was a worldwide epedemic from 1950- onwards (where mass travel could infect the world or entire continents fairly instantaneously)? A modern day black death. How long could it rage before a cure was found or all people without natural immunisation died out?
A few aware governments could seal all their borders in time or remote countries being untouched maybe? How would this effect the balance of power amongst nations? Mongolia or New Zealand become world players perhaps?
The a few instances I can thing of the top of my head, the 1976(i think) outbreak in Zaire isn't controlled and a ebola outbreak spreads across Africa, then too Europe and N.America.
S.America, China, India, Australia and the Soviet Union are the major world players with western Europe losing 8/10s of its population and US/Canada 7/10s.
Or during the 1990s destruction of the Soviet Union a killer disease escapes from a Omsk biological research station devestating most of Asia.
I dunno Im just tossing round some ideas. I think a AH epedemic would be a good exscuse too randomly change the balance of power between nations and dramatically alter the world in a short time.