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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rf3152 on 30 Apr 14The Aztecs could have won?
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50 and 100 million fatalities
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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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now-banned insecticide Dichloro-diphenyl-trichlorethane (DDT),
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, 10 percent of all U.S. deaths were attributed to tuberculosis
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ases greatly decreased.
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HIV made the jump from certain species of monkey and ape
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Yellow fever, like malaria, spreads from person to person through feeding mosquitoes.
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Outbreaks still occur in parts of South America, Africa and Asia
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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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