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10 Worst Epidemics : Discovery Channel - 7 views

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This engraving depicts Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez's Aug. 13, 1521 capture of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. The weapon that ensured his victory wasn't modern firepower, but smallpox the conquistadors inadvertently introduced to the continent.
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  The Aztecs could have won?
  
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50 and 100 million fatalities
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  That is more people than in the state of South Dakota.
  
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20 million people in a matter of months [source: Yount]. In a year's time, the flu would run its course, but only after inflicting a staggering death toll. Global estimates range between
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his engraving from 1656 depicts a plague doctor in protective clothing and mask.
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  What is it with the long nose?
  
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now-banned insecticide Dichloro-diphenyl-trichlorethane (DDT),
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  Why is it banned now?
  
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, 10 percent of all U.S. deaths were attributed to tuberculosis
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  10 percent out of how many deaths?
  
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ases greatly decreased.
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  By how much?
  
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HIV made the jump from certain species of monkey and ape
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  Monkeys?
  
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Yellow fever, like malaria, spreads from person to person through feeding mosquitoes.
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  Why do a lot of diseases pass through mosquitoes?
  
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Outbreaks still occur in parts of South America, Africa and Asia
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  Probably because some countries can't afford to get the shots.
  
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A 1956 operative in the Glaxo Laboratories mixes three distinct strains of killed poliovirus to prepare the final vaccine.
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  THat is how they mix vaccines, in big metal containers? Cool!
  
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