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The Black plague is spread by rodent and their fleas which could jump onto humans and infect them
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There was about 3,538 recorded smallpox deaths for the year in London.
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Smallpox was declared to be wiped out
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AIDS was discovered around 1980.
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143 people in Britain were infected.
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Cholera is an infection of the small intestine. Heavy rainfall is accelerating the spread of cholera in Sierra Leone and Guinea. the disease has killed 327 people and infected more than 17,400 in both countries since February.