7 Worst Killer Plagues in History


	7 Worst Killer Plagues in History

CrazyRedHead

11-18-2007 9:43 PM

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health, history, medicine, disease, epidemics

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11-19-2007 3:35 AM

saxman13

Great info for my exams!

11-19-2007 7:38 AM

Viiltaja

Without these diseases there'd be 10 billion people already. It's horrible but natural...

11-20-2007 1:07 AM

blueridge

The best prevention for these diseases (and accounts for the real eradication of small pox) is not immunization, but good hygiene.

It is the government that has experimented with these plague viruses and then shipped them around the world, from which another "pandemic" will spring.

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<BIG>Smallpox (430 BC? - 1979):</BIG>
Killed more than 300 million people worldwide in the 20th century alone, and most of the native inhabitants of the Americas</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oddee.com/item_90608.aspx"><IMG hspace="3" align="absmiddle" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddedge/top2.gif" />
<BIG>Spanish Flu (1918 - 1919):</BIG>
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<BIG>Black Death (1340 -  1771):</BIG>
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<BIG>Malaria (1600 - today):</BIG>
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<BIG>AIDS (1981 - today):</BIG>
Killed 25 million people worldwide
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<BIG>Cholera (1817 - today):</BIG>
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<BIG>Typhus (430 BC? - today):</BIG>
Killed 3 million people between 1918 and 1922 alone, and most of Napoleon's soldiers on Russia
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