10 Worst Epidemics : Discovery Channel - 7 views
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30 percent mortality rate
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mielkel on 30 Apr 14Out of 10 people, 3 will die.
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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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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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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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Why 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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misery
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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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30 percent mortality rate
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This is actually a lot of people. Because out of the ten of us, three of us would die. That to me is a lot of people
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Nurses care for victims of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic outdoors amidst canvas tents in Massachusetts.
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Caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, the illness can still present a problem in impoverished, rat-infested areas. Modern medicine allows for easy treatment of the disease in its early stages, making it a far less lethal threat. Symptoms include swollen lymph glands, fever, cough, bloody sputum and difficulty breathing.
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Is this not correct? I thought they said that the Black death was not caused by rats.
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cientists suspect the disease moved from birds to humans
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e Spanish flu
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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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This engraving from 1656 depicts a plague doctor in protective clothing and mask.
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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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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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Tuberculosis (TB) has ravaged human populations throughout recorded history. Ancient texts detail the manner in which its victims waste away, and DNA evidence of the disease was even discovered in Egyptian mummies.
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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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DDT on lice populations
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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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Tuberculosis
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handful of developing nations
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When French emperor Napoleon sent an army of 33,000 to French landholdings in North America, yellow fever killed 29,000 of those soldiers. Napoleon was so shocked by the number of casualties that he decided the territory wasn't worth the risk of further losses. France sold the land to the United States in 1803; an event which would go down in history as the Louisiana Purchase [source:Yount].
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Organizers prepare the world's largest functioning mosquito net
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During this period, traders inadvertently exported the deadly virus back to cities in China, Japan, North Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
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Did we not trade with these countries because why did north america get the disease.
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world's poorest developing nations.
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epidemic typhus.
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frequency among encamped armies
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malaise
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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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Few words in the English language encapsulate as much horror, misery and doom as " plague." After all, infectious diseases have inflicted a great deal of damage throughout the centuries. They've decimated whole populations, ended blood lines, claimed higher casualties than wars and played pivotal roles in charting the course of history.
