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Pandemic Scares in the 20th Century
www.hhs.gov/nvpo/pandemics/flu3.htm
categories: flu pandemic virus
“History suggests that influenza pandemics have probably happened during at least the last four centuries. During the 20th century, three pandemics and several “pandemic scares” occurred.”
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Center for Disease Control - Avian Flu
categories: flu pandemic virus
Updates information on the spread of Avian flu.
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Center for Disease Control - Flu
www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/disease.htm
categories: flu pandemic virus
What is the flu and how is it spread?
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Black Death Historical Information
www.themcs.org/black%20death.htm
“It is believed that the Black Death originated in central China in 1333 as the population succomed to starvation.”
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Bubonic Plague Hits San Francisco 1900-1909
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dm00bu.html
“In the summer of 1899, a ship sailing from Hong Kong to San Francisco had had two cases of plague on board.”
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History of Plagues
uhavax.hartford.edu/bugl/histepi.htm#plague
“This site has a vast amount of information on the Plague, both the scientific and the historical role. Includes pictures of diseased victims.”
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Dark Death
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How the plague spread, with a map of the advance.
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And A Ship Came Bearing Death
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” Europeans felt no alarm until 1347. It was then that the plague-known as the Great Mortality or the Pestilence-came by sea.”
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Plague - Grolier Online
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“Plague, in history, literature, and common usage, any epidemic scourge or calamity for which remedies are difficult to find; in the medical sense, plague is the common term for a disease of rodents that occasionally causes severe human infection.”
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WHO Disease Outbreaks
categories: flu pandemic virus
The official World Health Organization sites about current disease outbreaks.
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