Yeah, I remember that one (thought don't ask me what the title was or where I read it!).
The thing is- that isn't actually terribly likely.
New viruses tend to develop in places where people live in intimate proximity with animals- a typical vector is bird viruses adapt to pigs and from there it's a short hop to humans. That's why the preoccupation with bird flu. That's why the most virulent epidemics these days seem to come from the Third World. Then you have the waterbourne diseases- things that propagate in the absence of good hygiene and or sewage control.
And yet, we see very few (if any) stories where an SG-team encounters a civilization suffering from an indigenous plague, or a variant on one of the diseases brought from Earth. Other types of natural disasters are far more common in fic.
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The thing is- that isn't actually terribly likely.
New viruses tend to develop in places where people live in intimate proximity with animals- a typical vector is bird viruses adapt to pigs and from there it's a short hop to humans. That's why the preoccupation with bird flu. That's why the most virulent epidemics these days seem to come from the Third World. Then you have the waterbourne diseases- things that propagate in the absence of good hygiene and or sewage control.
And yet, we see very few (if any) stories where an SG-team encounters a civilization suffering from an indigenous plague, or a variant on one of the diseases brought from Earth. Other types of natural disasters are far more common in fic.