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Small Pox:
 * caused by the variola minus or variola major virus
 * day 1-3 small rashes/blisters
 * day 4-5 blisters get bigger...itching
 * day 6-10 papules are really big...fluid in them
 * day 11-14 all blisters are scabs that leave scars on the body
 * in native americans about 30% had small pox....
 * taken to europe when settlers came to america
 * can catch through inhilation...and body fluids
 * no treatment in the past now there is fluid therapy etc to reduce the looks of the disease
 * doesn't exist anymore

cholera:
 * major outbreak in londong 1854
 * acute diarrheal bacteria infects the small intestine
 * infects through drinking water
 * identified in 1883
 * john snow=look furthe rinto what was causing cholera
 * snow convinced officials to remove water
 * 10,675 people died

Flu:
 * killed 50 million people 1/5 of world population
 * caused by rna virus
 * symptoms: chills fever discomfort coughing
 * emerged in late spring 1918...lasted just for three days no reports of death....later in fall of 1918....reached united states
 * it was hard to save your health once it hit
 * suffocation occurred b/c fluid enter the lungs until you can't breath anymore
 * made its way across the country in a month
 * killed more people in that year than all casualties in world war 1

Lyme disease:
 * in a one year period 51 people were experience athritis symptoms...was later linked to the tick
 * in connecticut farms were abandoned and turned into forrest...new habitat for deer...pop increased...more human to deer contact
 * vaccine on the market for ten years...removed because it didn't work very well...antiobiotics help if caught early
 * messes up your nerves

Legionnaires Disease:
 * caused by bacteria
 * can be found near water coolers
 * found in warm environments
 * easily spread with water
 * 8,000 to 18,000 get it a year
 * symptoms: fever, chills, muscle aches, head aches, lost of cordination, diarrhea, vomiting
 * infected through breathing the bacteria in
 * people who smoke a lot are at higher risk
 * most people are middle aged and older are more at risks
 * wont kill you but leads to pneumonia that will kill you

E-coli
 * in 1993 outbreak of ecoli at jack in the box
 * 700 different types of e coli
 * symptoms...diarrhea...kidney faiure/death
 * acute kidney failure
 * jack in the box: 4 children died....state regulations required burgers to be cooked to 155 disease f but jack in the box did not
 * brianna kiner...was 9 when she got it...in hospital for 189 had three stroked and 10,000 seizures....her mom was asked 6 times if they wanted to pull the plug....has to sleep 14 hrs a day...has diabetes now
 * 200,000 burgers were recalled company paid 40 million dollars in laswsuits...lost credibility

crypto:
 * diarrheal disease...passed through water....uncooked food...human feces....must be injested through the mouth
 * milwakee=spring of 93 acute diarrhea killed 100 people less than half a million were infected...shut the two plants down...a lot of infection came from ice
 * lasted 9 days...stools per day is 12...403,000 had diarrhea from the disease

ebola:
 * fatal in humans and monkeys...started in 1976...only been in africa...
 * don't know where first virus actually started ..zoonotic(from animals)
 * someone working with it in a lab in england and accidentally got himself with it
 * die withing 2 or 15 days
 * internally bleeding, blood comes out everywhere, highly contagious....
 * spread to monkey in virginia

Black Plague:
 * originated in central asia...
 * killed 60% of pop in europe at the time
 * people were going crazy...sperating themselves from races and religions due to fear
 * rats on ships....the large brown rat...the fleas on the rat that caused the disease
 * symptoms: blood poisioning...pneumonia(fluid in lungs)...sores....
 * dies withing days of infection

Aids:
 * started in 1980s...passed on person to person
 * aids is a collection of symptoms damaging the immune system
 * makes people more likely to get tumors and infections
 * depending on how early you catch it you can prevent its growth
 * passed on through sex, child birth, needles, breast feeding
 * 33 mil have aids world wide
 * teenagers are fastest raising groups at risk

Sars:
 * severe acute respitory ssyndrome
 * nov. 2002-july 2008 8,096 cases with 774 deaths
 * symptoms: fever, cough, sore throat, high fever(100+), shortness of breath
 * first case of sars nov 2002 by Chinese farmer. govt thought it was the flu...in april 2003 more cases began to show...sars was spreading
 * many people lost jobs...including the mayor of bejing
 * reached america in 2003 when a man traveling back to america had flu like symptoms
 * in hong kong doctor in a hotel gave it to people in his hotel and they spread it

Avian flu:
 * symptoms: cough, fever, sore throat, muscle aches
 * will eventually die
 * in thailand in 2004 there was evidence of human to human spread...only spread in the family and no one else
 * 2005...from uncooked duck blood
 * indonesia 2006...spread withing the family
 * responsible for millions of poultry deaths each year
 * avian flu responsible for 206 human death
 * mortality rate is 95%
 * approved vaccine