(June 4, 2015 at 11:30 pm)IATIA Wrote: Better communication means higher awareness. Also, higher concentrations of populace equates to increased spreading. So, yes.
Also, there is increased travel, which increases the spread of disease. With air travel, one can take a disease pretty much anywhere else in the world in a day. That was not possible just 100 years ago. So we have better opportunities for a worldwide plague than in the past.
Sweet dreams!
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