we were done with syphilis, then HIV came. Once we're done with HIV, what is the next thing to come?
In all seriousness folks, humans and cheetahs and a few other species, are uniquely susceptible to extinction by disease.
Something bad happened to us a long time ago and thus we can trace our ancestry to a few individuals! This means one individual group of chimpanzees can have more genetic diversity (and thus greater resistance to diseases) then all of humanity.
But if you really want to bet on what the "next big thing" will be, I suggest you put your money on the plain old (and ever new) flu.
Also the "next 1918" flu will not care if we've conquered HIV or not.
Cheetah aren't going to stop using protection just because there is nothing to fear anymore.
>Something bad happened to us a long time ago and thus we can trace our ancestry to a few individuals!
These few individuals left Africa by crossing the Sinai and went to spread around the world. That was definitely bad for Neanderthals.
And the relevance is.....?