The Walking Death

            Horton Hears a Who was a popular book by Dr. Seuss when I was just a wee young lad. It lately has been adapted into a movie, but one of the main points that I would like to point out in the book is that, no matter how small something is, the thing’s life still means the most to them even if it seems meaningless or stupid and small to someone else. This translates into real life pretty easily, because many people do not really think about the microorganisms that go on in our body, but take them for granted and do not always treat them correctly. These organisms keep you alive day to day and so it would be nice to not endanger it with a stupid dare or a hashtag yolo action.

            One of the reasons that I mention this is because of a deadly zombie-like parasite amoeba that lives inside a body. This article here can give more information on the how. I think is a good breakthrough in how to increase medical abilities and technology. Researchers from the University of Virginia have determined that these amoebas do not release toxins and eat a dead cell like people originally thought, instead these amoebas will actually consume a living blood cell and devour it. Many people die from this disease each year and one of the reasons that it has probably been different to stop it, is probably because we have currently been using the wrong type of medication to treat it. In other words, the way how we used to treat the disease was like a person repeatedly being stabbed and having small chunks of his body ripped out by another person, where a bystander would come along and hand the person being stabbed a gas mask, to try and keep out the poisoned air without even trying to remove the stabber. Now with this problem fixed, these people will be more easily saved.

            I do not really believe the next sentence, and I know it seems heartless but just for an opposing point, if this is really such a great breakthrough after all. Everyone knows that the world is being overpopulated right now, and anyone who does not is probably uneducated about the Earth’s resources. There are currently seven billion people in the world right now, and still growing. There is only 3.5% of the world’s land that can be used for agriculture, so would it not be a good thing if we tried to keep our population down? People are trying long-term plans to try to keep population down, but we most likely are already over the limit.