FUTURE HUMAN

8 New Diseases That Are Coming to Wipe Us Out

A scary group of ailments are lurking right around the corner — and there’s not much we can do to stop them

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9 min readJul 11, 2018

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Roughly 7.3 billion people inhabit the Earth, and that figure is expected to balloon to nearly 10 billion by 2050, according to United Nations estimates. All…

Markham Heid

Written by Markham Heid

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OneZero

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.

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