10 Worst Epidemics : Discovery Channel - 7 views
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This engraving from 1656 depicts a plague doctor in protective clothing and mask.
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jh4017 on 30 Apr 14What's on the doctor nose?
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Malaria isn't new to the world of epidemic diseases. Records of its impact on human populations date back more than 4,000 years, when Greek writers noted its ravaging effects. Accounts of the mosquito-born illness pop up in ancient Indian and Chinese medical texts. Even then, scientists made the vital connections between the illness and the still waters where mosquitoes breed.
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So part of the world are all coming to together to slove this
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Wartime soldiers of the past often experienced great losses to malaria. In the American Civil War alone, 1,316,000 men reportedly suffered from the illness and 10,000 died. During World War I, malaria immobilized British, French and German forces for three years. Nearly 60,000 U.S. soldiers died from the disease in Africa and the South Pacific during World War II [source: Malaria Site].
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If these illness where not there during the war how could it affected the outcome.
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