A few years ago, when the AIDS epidemic had started, I was talking to a researcher at the CDC about the sudden appearance of AIDS, Leprosy, and Tuberculosis.  I had mentioned to him that it looked like the biblical diseases were making a comeback.  He laughed slightly and said, "Wait until you see what's coming around the corner."  It did not sink in to me at that time.  I thought he may have been talking about another single disease but he didn't.  Now I know what he meant.

In the past two decades, microbes have changed. The rise of MRSA (methicillin resistant Staph aureus) and VRE (vancomycin resistant enterococcus) has already made their impact on the number of nosocomial infections that debilitate or kill hospital patients.  In many areas of the world the percentages of antibiotic resistant pathogenic bacteria is approaching 100%.

According to my sources inside the research world, Alzheimer's is now being seen as a brain infection that is treatable with antibiotics.  Schizophrenia is on the rise and the primary cause of this mental disease is......toxoplasma gondii, a brain parasite.

Is there a zombie apocalypse in our future?  If the bugs have their way....yes.