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Period: 100 to
Timespan of diseases
When there is 3 digits it means BC -
Jan 1, 1348
'The Black death'
The black death was an outbreak of disease called the bubodic plague.the DNA from the victims in northern and southern Europe indicates that the pathogen responsible for the black death was the Yersinia pestis bacteria, which causes the Bubonic plague. (excact date uknown). -
The Invention of the vaccine
Edward Jenner came up with the idea of vaccination. So for instance if you had caught smallpox you would be injected with the same pathogen as the small pox and you would be cured within a few days -
louis pasteur's discovery of pasturization
Pasteurization is a process of heating a food, which is usually a liquid, to a specific temperature for a certain length of time and then immediately cooling it after it is removed from the heat. This process reduces amount of bacteria in food. -
Gruiniard Island Testing ground
In 1942 people were testing biological wepons on gruiniard island. The weapons were filled with anthrax (a fungal infection spread by spores) and fired at numbers of sheep. The weapon worked but the anthrax's spores had sank into the ground and contaminated the island. So for a few years it was called of limits and was decomtaminated with steam guns.(date of actions unknown). -
Efforts to stop polio
In 2011, the total number of reported cases of wild polio (from both endemic and non-endemic countries) was 647.Polio remained endemic in only four countries: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. (day and month N/A)
