re: #689 Sacred Plants

Concerning the scenario that the absence of the treatment might be more risky than the treatment, the fruitful question to ask is where does the disease come from, or has it always been here?

I’m assuming you’re being serious. Records of diseases exist as far back as written records. It goes even further back in the anthropological record. Many diseases leave telltale markers on skeletons, and we know for a fact that many of them have been around for a very, very long time.

Other diseases aren’t as old. The first recorded case of Ebola showed up less than 40 years ago and probably jumped species. New strains of the flu crop up because the viruses mutate like crazy. Salmonella in eggs wasn’t a problem until relatively recently.