Plague is found on every continent, but currently, plague is most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. More than 90 percent of current reported cases are found there, according to a review inPLOS Medicine. More than 1,000cases of plaguehave been reported in the United States in t...
(Hebrew Bible) tells of a disease visited upon the Philistines that may have been bubonic plague. The Iliad describes the surgeon Machaon treating Menaleus’ arrow wound. Egyptian physicians described the host reaction to wounds (suppuration, inflammation) as early as the third millennium BC and ...
How It Impacted The World: Once Jenner used cowpox as a way to vaccinate (fromvariolae vaccinaeor "smallpox of the cow") against smallpox, his technique slowly gained support. During the 19th century, cases of smallpox declined but the disease continued to be problematic. It became cl...
1945: Pingfang Biological Disaster; Unit #731 accidentally unleashes biological weapons at Pingfang, further destablizing the Pacific Rim, with cases of bubonic plague reported even in North America,... 1945: Black Friday; Los Angeles Police Department launches brutal crackdown on labor union protes...
How It Impacted The World: Once Jenner used cowpox as a way to vaccinate (fromvariolae vaccinaeor "smallpox of the cow") against smallpox, his technique slowly gained support. During the 19th century, cases of smallpox declined but the disease continued to be problematic. It became cle...
it was not just clear that this had happened, but that scrapie may have made an inter-species jump to become BSE in cows. If that was true, then it was equally possible that a similar leap could occur between cows and humans, particularly when cases of 'new variant' CJD started to em...
In “Sing a Song of Sixpence” the blackbird pecks off the nurse’s nose! And “Ring Around the Rosy” was about the bubonic plague. “Rosy” referred to the rash. “We all fall down” referred to the enormous death rate. (click on this link to read more) ...
When those practices were relaxed, cases went back up. “That second hump was never as high as the first hump, but they went up, nevertheless, and then, they pulled back again, and the cases went down,” said Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine. ...
How It Impacted The World: Once Jenner used cowpox as a way to vaccinate (fromvariolae vaccinaeor "smallpox of the cow") against smallpox, his technique slowly gained support. During the 19th century, cases of smallpox declined but the disease continued to be problematic. It became c...