Question: What Is The Fastest Growing Disease?

Asked by septox to Cindy, Kate, Miranda, Yagiz on 20 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by horizontalrunning.

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  1. Photo: Miranda WeenMiranda Ween
    answered on 20 Mar 2013:

    cancer cells divide once every 24hrs or so but tumour doubling time is months. bacteria can divide once every 20-30 minutes and you can eat something with bacteria in it and be suffering from food posioning a few hours later. I’m having difficulty finding the avergae replication time of a virus, but chicken pox is reported to be 9-12 hrs.

    So I would guess it is likely to be bacteria

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  2. Photo: Kate SkulteKate Skulte
    answered on 20 Mar 2013:

    Hi septox, I’m thinking about your question from a different angle as to what is the fastest growing disease in a population. The number of people with allergies is increasing rapidly. We also have an aging population because people are living longer, so age related diseases are on the rise too. But I think infectious disease is the winner. The flu can spread rapidly among people, especially in winter when we are all huddled close together inside. Air travel is quite accessible to a lot of people now so it is also much easier to bring in diseases from overseas.

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  3. Photo: Yagiz "Biohacker" Alp AksoyYagiz "Biohacker" Alp Aksoy
    answered on 21 Mar 2013:

    Diabetes (type 2) for sure! Not only in Australia but pretty much in all developed countries. I was listening Dr. Oz about a year ago, he suggested if diabetes continue to grow with the same speed (experts think it will grow even faster) American healtcare system will go bankrupt within 5-10 years.
    Unfortunately, current so-called “modern” lifestyle push people to have a really low-quality lives. We see people buy latest iPhone, LED TV or Mercedes Benz but live in polluted cities with low quality air, consume extremely unhealthy food and hardly do any exercise. Well, they all cause diabetes to become fastest growing disease…

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