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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
 * originated in central america in 1340's
 * killed about 75 million people total and killed about 60 percent of europe population
 * it is blood poisoning and is a pneumonia
 * people die with in days of infection
 * transmitted through fleas
 * 1493: **Syphilis In Europe**: MASSEY http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_15.html
 * started in france
 * used to kill people in just months
 * now if people get severe cases than can still live for years
 * sexually transmitted
 * 1500s **Small Pox Epidemics among Native Americans**: EMILY http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5100
 * infectious disease caused by variola minus or major virus
 * rashes come up or blisters and scabs
 * 30 % of Native American population had small pox
 * European's arrived here and got infected with it and brought it back to Europe
 * transmitted through inhaling the virus or through bodily fluids
 * can be treated not but it wasn't curable back then
 * It does not exist anymore
 * 1854: **Cholera In London**:KAT http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_08.html
 * causes diarhea and loss of body fluids, leading to dehydration
 * death can come in just hours if not treated
 * treated by filling your body with good fluids
 * contamination of water causes cholera
 * John Snow-- learned and researched cholera and found out where it was coming from
 * 1918: **Flu Pandemic**:CHANDLER http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3318/02.html
 * attacked about 1/5 of the world population
 * caused by influenza
 * transmitted through the air, blood, and feces
 * some survived for days but then sufocated and died
 * in US 25 % had the flu
 * reduced life expectancy by 12 years
 * 1975-76: **Lyme Disease In Connecticut**:PATRICIA http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_12.html
 * from old lyme, connecticut
 * transmitted by deer tick
 * treatments--> vaccine taken off market and just antibiotics left now if caught early enough
 * 1976: **Legionnaire's Disease In Philadelphia**: KEATON http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_06.html
 * caused by bacteria
 * warm environments
 * found near water
 * 18,000 get it in the us each year
 * some may of little symptoms and some have no symptoms
 * some symptoms include fever, chills, cough, tiredness, loss of appetite and coordination, vomitting,
 * only can be infected through respiratory system
 * smokers are at higher risk
 * usually middle age and older people that get it
 * 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
 * bacteria
 * intestines
 * diahrea, abdominal pain, kidney failure and death
 * 600 people left with ecoli and 4 children died due to eating jack in the box
 * 1993: **Cryptosporidiosis In Milwaukee:**RJ http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_07/secseven_pg_09.html
 * diarrheal disease caused by parasites
 * transmitted through bad water
 * ingested through the mouth
 * killed over 100 people and made about 400,000 sick
 * 1990s to Today: **Ebola outbreaks**:HARRISON [|http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/Spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola.htm>]
 * often fatal disease in humans and primates
 * started in 1976
 * only been in africa
 * once in US
 * based off filoviridae
 * once you have it, it makes rapid progress and you die within 2 -15 days
 * doesnt affect some people
 * internal bleeding and then blood comes from all over your body
 * 2002: **SARS Outbreaks**:FAITH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome
 * Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
 * symptoms- fever, cough, sore throat, fever, shortness of breath, occur 2-10 days after infected
 * first in nov of 2002 by a chinese farmer
 * many people lost their jobs in china because of it
 * reached america and all over the world in 2003
 * about 10 % of the people who got it died
 * Present: **Avian (Bird) Flu Outbreaks**:BILL http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/outbreaks
 * kills 95-100 % who get it
 * started in 2004
 * transmitted from bird to human and not from human to human except for a few cases
 * we have a vaccine in it but wont give it to any other country
 * hasnt affected anyone in the us
 * started in 2004
 * transmitted from bird to human and not from human to human except for a few cases
 * we have a vaccine in it but wont give it to any other country
 * hasnt affected anyone in the us