ALIEN Diseases Explained

Extraterrestrial life is life that does not originate from Earth. It is also called alien life, or, if it is a sentient and/or relatively complex individual, an “extraterrestrial” or “space alien”. These forms of life range from simple bacteria-like organisms to beings with civilizations far more advanced than humanity. But do extraterrestrials also carry otherworldly diseases? And If so, could they infect us human beings? How will our immune system react to  unearthly viruses?

Could Alien Diseases infect our human bodies? The outer limits to Immunity will be revealed.

— Supernatural Spirit (@spiritworldblog) July 19, 2015

GET ACCESS: Alien Diseases

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EXTRATERRESTRIAL/TERRESTRIAL 

IMMUNITY

You Know This:

The immune system is a system of many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease. To function properly, an immune system must detect a wide variety of agents, known as pathogens, from viruses to parasitic worms, and distinguish them from the organism’s own healthy tissue.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Alien Diseases:

“If we were to make contact with alien life, would it be possible for us to contract diseases from them, and could our immune systems adapt to them?” 

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and infectious disease expert Laurie Garrett approach the answer differently.

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@0:41 In principle, we could catch a disease from aliens, but I think it’s highly unlikely.

Really? 

@0:46 Yes! Because, they would be completely different from us.

 Typically this jumping of species . . .

“We will never catch Dutch elm disease, and trees don’t catch the flu. 

So, the more remote a species is genetically from you, the less likely their going to have a disease that can jump to you. So therefore, aliens would be the maximally remote kind of life to humans.”

Alien(s) is the keyword to solve this enigma.

 There is more than one “species” of alien life out there; it’s more like a hierarchy. 

Some species way beyond the “genetic composition” of mankind

 and others that look just like us. 

Mutation: disfiguring (or transforming)

It’s possible for a disease to jump species, but the odds of an interplanetary disease jumping species with a different biology would be small . . . - J Keenan

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

The Andromeda Strain (1969), by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism. 

@2:15 “If we go to the Moon and we take our human microbes as hitchhikers to the Moon, and there is any alien-lifeform at all, that we don’t know about on the Moon, our microbes might kill that lifeform.”

Conversely, if there is any alien-lifeform on the Moon, 

we might bring it back with us to Earth.

(Luckily for them, the alien-life they’ve found only observed).

Viruses From Outer Space: How Will Scientists Protect the Planet From Extraterrestrial Diseases?

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Space travel means that the threat of foreign germs coming to Earth is all too real!

(or merely an our own illusion). 

“Conley is NASA’s Planetary Protection Officer, and her job is to ensure that astronauts and robots that leave our planet don’t bring back nasty extra-terrestrial bugs that could potentially wipe out life on Earth. Since man started blasting rockets into space, the problem of viruses and potentially hazardous forms of life hasn’t been relegated to Earth.”

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