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H5N1

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SARS

West Nile Vis

H5N1

Tuberculosis

West Nile Virus

Ebola

History of Black Death

History of India’s Smallpox Epidemic

History of Polio Epidemic

History of Influenza Pandemic

History of the Plague of Justinian

SARS

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H5N1

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Mortality Rate: 60%

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Symptoms: fever, cough, sore throat, aches

pneumonia, respiratory diseases

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How It Spreads: bird-to-bird, infected poultry

to humans

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Where It Is Located: 12 or more countries in

Asia, Africa, Europe, Near East

Tuberculosis

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Mortality Rate: 45%

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Symptoms: bad cough, coughing up blood,

chest pain, weakness, weight loss,

fever

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How It Spreads: air, human-to-human

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Where It Is Located: worldwide

SARS

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Mortality Rate: 9.6%

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Symptoms: high fever, headache,

aches, respiratory troubles,

dry cough

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How It Spreads: air, human-to-human,

surfaces

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Where It Is Located: 24+ countries in:

North America, Asia,

Europe, South America

West Nile Virus

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Mortality Rate: 3%

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Symptoms: fever, headache, aches, swollen

glands, risk for brain and spinal

cord infections

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How It Spreads: horses, birds, dogs, mosquitoes

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Where It Is Located: North America, Australia, parts of Europe, Middle East, West Asia

Ebola

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Mortality Rate: 90%

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Symptoms: flu, vomiting, hemorrhaging

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How It Spreads: infected animals,

human-to-human, bodily fluids

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Where It Is Located: West Africa, US, suspected in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia

History of: The Plague of Justinian

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Year: 541-542 25 MILLION people killed

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Symptoms: fever, headache, weakness, swellng black boils

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How It Spread: fleas, infected humans, human-to-human

• Infected rats on boats from Egypt spread the bubonic plague to Constantinople.
• 10,000 citizens died daily.
• This brought a new era of instability fo eastern Europe

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History of: The Black Death

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Year: 1347-1352 200 MILLION People Killed

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Symptoms: fever, headache, weakness, swelling, black boils

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How It Spread: fleas, infected animals, human-to-human

• In 1347 12 Genoese trading ships arrived in Messina with most of their sailors dead from The Black Death.
• The ships were forced out of the harbor, but not before they contaminated Messina with the disease.
• As a result, millions were killed across Europe for 5 years.

History of: The 1916 Polio Epidemic

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Year: 1916 6,000 People Killed

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Symptoms: fever, headache, vomiting, meningitis,

paralysis

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How It Spreads: fecal-oral contact, saliva,

human-to-human, food

• When Polio hit the U.S. in 1916, scientists were 30 years away from developing a vaccine.
• 25% of victims died in the U.S.
• 9,000 cases called for quarantines in New York City
• Caused great fear for parents of a paralyzed child.

History of: The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic

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Year: 1918-1919 30 MILLION People Killed

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Symptoms: fever, cough, aches, headaches, vomiting

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How It Spreads: air, surfaces, human-to-human

• Killed more people than WWI (which occurred at the same time)
• 10 times as many Americans died of the flu as died in combat.
• Flu season was particularly deadly because of a 2.5% mortality rate.

History of: India’s Smallpox Epidemic

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Year: 1974 15,000 People Killed in India

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Symptoms: headache, fever, sores, rash, delirium, blindness

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How It Spreads: surfaces, face-to-face, bodily fluids

• Because of a lack of effective deployment of a vaccine, thousands of people died.
• Many people in India came to see Smallpox as a routine fact of life.

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