Historic Viruses

Viruses Throughout History
5 Historical Pandemics
The Black Death ran from 1340 to 1771
The Black Death claimes 75 million worldwide
The Black Death took people from all walks of life
The Black Plague is believed to have started with bacterium carried by rats
Or was it a hemoragic fever like Ebola
Small Pox killed 60 million Europeans in the 18th century
Old World diseases killed 90% of inhabitants of the New World
300 million dies of Small Pox in the 20th century
The WHO declared Small Pox Eradicated in 1979
Spanish Flu ran from 1918 - 1919
The Spanish Flu took 50 to 100 million people in less than 2 years
AIDS has killed 25 million people as of 2009
40 million people live with AIDS today. It is the leading cause of death for African-American women
As of October 2009 there were 3500 deaths worldwide from Swine Flu

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