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=Outbreaks and Epidemics=
 * 1347-48: **Bubonic Plague, Black Death**:BLAIR http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_11.html
 * 1493: **Syphilis In Europe**: MASSEY http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_15.html
 * 20% of French people have it
 * 1500s **Small Pox Epidemics among Native Americans**: EMILY http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5100
 * Small pox has a bunch of blisters
 * gets worse as time goes on
 * 30% of native Americans have small pox
 * Inhaling, 6 feet of face to face contact
 * Vaccinations can make it go away
 * 1854: **Cholera In London**:KAT http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_08.html
 * John Snow discovered it in 1883
 * 1918: **Flu Pandemic**:CHANDLER http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3318/02.html

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 * 1975-76: **Lyme Disease In Connecticut**:PATRICIA http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_12.html
 * In one year fifty-one people were experiencing uncommon juvenile arthritides
 * Ticks can move from pets to people
 * In 2001 they have antibiotics
 * If its untreated it can cause memory loss or mode swings,
 * "The great imitator"
 * From Connecticut
 * 1976: **Legionnaire's Disease In Philadelphia**: KEATON http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_06.html
 * 1992: **E. coli outbreaks In Western U.S**.: DEDE [|http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_14.html\]
 * outbreak in Jack in the Box in 1993
 * More than 700 types
 * Ecoli 0157
 * can die from it
 * Kidney failure
 * The ecoli were not cooked and the meat was contaminated
 * 19 years old when she got the ecol i, 19 strokes and tons of seisures
 * 20 years old now, needs a kidney transplant
 * Her family received 20 million from jack and the box
 * over 200,000 burgers were recalled
 * 1993: **Cryptosporidiosis In Milwaukee:**RJ http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_09.html
 * Crypto outbreak in Milwaukee
 * Diarrheal disease caused by microscopic parasites
 * Transmission through water, drinking, recreational
 * Infected animal or human feces, changing tables
 * Must be ingested through the mouth
 * 1980s To Today: **AIDS Worldwide**:CAROLINE http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_16.html
 * Aids started in the 1980's
 * Get tested for aids or HIV
 * 33 million people have it worldwide
 * Transmitted through sex
 * 1990s to Today: **Ebola outbreaks**:HARRISON [|http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/Spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola.htm>]
 * Fatal in humans and monkeys
 * started in 1976, only been in Africa now
 * Filoviridae virus
 * origins are unknown
 * outbreaks only occur in Africa
 * once you have ebola, it could kill you, or it could not kill you
 * internal bleeding, blood comes from every possible place in your body
 * Spread to monkeys in Virginia somehow
 * 2002: **SARS Outbreaks**:FAITH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome
 * Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
 * SExually transmitted disease
 * most people mistake SARS for the Flu
 * High fever, Sore Throat, 2-10 days after exposure
 * Present: **Avian (Bird) Flu Outbreaks**:BILL http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/outbreaks
 * Cogh, Fever, Sore throat, and muscle aches
 * No real way to distinguish avian flu from typical seasonal FLu
 * evidence of human to human spread
 * People get it from birds
 * 206 deaths
 * millions of chicken deaths
 * 95%-100% mortality rates
 * U.S has a vaccine
 * 206 deaths
 * millions of chicken deaths
 * 95%-100% mortality rates
 * U.S has a vaccine