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How many Pilgrims survived to celebrate the first Thanksgiving? How many Aztecs died due to smallpox? How many tribes did Lewis and Clark encounter? How many people were in the Athenian Empire? How many people have lived in the history of the world?
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
In 1980, the World Health Organizationdeclaredsmallpox entirely eradicated due to the spread of immunization worldwide. It remains the only infectious disease to have been entirely wiped out. Why African Americans Were More Likely to Die During the 1918 Flu Pandemic ...
an Italian immigrant community evocatively called Pigtown. And hygiene certainly doesn’t work very well to explain polio’s persistence among the world’s poorest, where sanitation is bad and public health infrastructure is close to nonexistent. (“One injection stops smallpo...
proving to us they're still ignoring the rapidly growing 'death count' that may have also just taken the life of former FOX News Vice President Alan Komisarrof who just 'died suddenly' of a 'cardiac event' at the still-young age of 47, how many more such deaths will we witness before...
People actually die from Tylenol every year. There are side effects to the polio and smallpox vaccines. But we decided that the societal good of mass inoculation far outweighs the extremely rare side effects. And we have quantifiable evidence that our society is better as a whole when it doe...
because Santa Clara county has 2 million people and only an estimated 100 deaths . . . 0.03*(2 million)/100 = 600, so that implies that 1/600 of exposed people there died. So that’s good news, relatively speaking: we’d still like to avoid 300 million Americans getting the virus an...
Smallpox arrived on Hispaniola by 1519 and soon spread to mainland Central America and beyond. Along with measles, influenza, chickenpox, bubonic plague, typhus, scarlet fever, pneumonia and malaria, smallpox spelled disaster for Native Americans, who lacked immunity to such diseases. Although the ...
Still, there were agonising choices. Kenya imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew. At one point, more people had been shot for defying it than had died of Covid-19. Kennedy Odede, who helped distribute soap to slum-dwellers in Nairobi, said: “They are telling me we better die from coronavirus...