It killed the wife, and she died, imploring24 the old priest to see her child righted and its father's name secured to it. He promised; but he was poor, the child was a frail25 baby, and he waited. Years passed, and when the child was old enough to ask for its parents and ...
Following that,the virus that had killed the woman would go on to kill nearly 100,000 people living in and around London—almost a third of those who did not flee. In The Great Plague(瘟疫): The Story of London's Most Deadly Year,historian A.Lloyd Moote and microbiologist Dorothy C.Moo...
Cholera.Cholera has caused several pandemics dating back to the 1800s. Cholera spreads through contaminated water or food. The disease has killed millions of people, with more than a billion now at risk around the world. Spanish flu.The 1918 flu pandemic started in Kansas from an H1N1 influenz...
people didn't understand the connection between public health and garbage . This filth attracted rats and fleas , which spread a deadly disease . The plague , also called the Black Death , killed 75 million people worldwide.
throw their waste right in the middle of the street . At the time , people didn't understand the connection between public health and garbage . This filth attracted rats and fleas , which spread a deadly disease . The plague , also...
You might not expect one of the world's rarest diseases to be something that has killed millions of people throughout human history. But, if you wanted to catch a case of smallpox, the only sure place to find it would be in a handful of government laboratories. Smallpox is spread by ...
How did an illiterate and very likely married young Jewish day laborer from a Galilean backwater who rose up against an entrenched Roman-Jewish priesthood establishment as a messiah and was killed by the regional establishment like a dozen other messiahs in the same region during the same period...
Undoubtedly many of us have been watching news reports and thinking about the horrific Los Angeles area wildfires. You have to go back to theGreat Chicago Fire of 1871that “eventually consumed roughly 3.3 square miles, killed up to 300 people and left 100,000 homeless” or theSan Francisco ...
While fighting in the Persian Gulf during the first Iraq war, he watched as one of his friends died. He saw the killing of countless people on both sides. He killed others with the mortar rounds he fired. He was under heavy fire for days at a time. After he returned home, he re...
Signs of St. Anthony’s fire were easy to see: seizures, hallucinations, and blackened limbs. Medieval Europeans believed its cause to be spiritual, but the true cause was far more earthly.