10 Worst Epidemics : Discovery Channel - 7 views
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The flu of 1918 carried symptoms typical of normal influenza, including fever, nausea, aches and diarrhea. Also, patients would frequently develop black spots on their cheeks. As their lungs filled with liquid, they ran the risk of dying from lack of oxygen. Those who died effectively drowned in their own mucus.
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js4347 on 30 Apr 14Why is today's flu not as bad as the flu in 1918? It's also horrible that they drown in their own mucus.
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Considered the first true pandemic disease, the Black Death killed half of Europe's population in 1348
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In 1906, the United States employed more than 26,000 workers to construct the Panama Canal. Organizers hospitalized more than 21,000 of these men for malaria [source: CDC]
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I remember talking about this. The workers all associated and spreaded it around. A lot of people died.
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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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Another reason why war is bad: You can spread diseases around and wind up killing most of the world because of two countries not getting along.
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When Spanish forces laid siege to the Moorish stronghold of Granada in 1489, an outbreak of typhus reduced the Spanish forces from 25,000 to 8,000 in a single month [source: Conlon]. Due to the ravages of typhus, it would be another century before the Spanish could drive the Moors from Spain. As recently as World War I, the disease caused several million deaths in Russia, Poland and Romania.
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That kind of bit the Spaniards in the butt. They tried to force the Moorish out of their lands and typhus kiled a lot of their army. Karma!
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South America, Africa and Asia.
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Why are the diseases still always around here. It seems that Africa and South America have the most outbreaks.
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