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    New castle disease, also known as avian pneumencephalitis, is a immensely transmissible and communicable viral disease that targets Domesticated birds, geese, pheasants, quail, roosters, pullets, pigeons, and aviary birds. Newcastle disease is actually a worldwide problem because it is one of the most serious poultry diseases. The disease began outpouring in 1926 in Java, Indonesia. The disease spread rapidly, and the widespread of the disease was uncontrollable and have wiped a lot of poultry

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    Influenza Pandemics

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    Throughout the history, influenza viruses have caused several pandemics or global epidemics, killing many people. For example, the influenza strike in 1918 to 1919 infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, which is one-third of the planet’s population at the time and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million people. More than 25 percentage of the U.S. population were affected, and caused 675,000 deaths in U.S during the pandemic.(History, 2015). There were no effective treatments for this

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    During the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, over one-third of Europe’s population fell victim to a treacherous disease nicknamed The Black Death. During The Middle Ages, medicine was not advanced enough to pinpoint exactly what was causing these tragic losses. However, it was later discovered that the bacteria originated in rodents, transferred to fleas when they bit the rodents, and finally reached humans through flea bites. Throughout the troublesome time period when this plague blanketed

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    How to survive a deadly disease outbreak Our world can be a dangerous place, well actually it is an extremely unsafe place. Our world is full of psychotic serial killers and terrorism. Although, does anyone ever think of diseases such as Ebola or even Influenza, those can kill people in the matter of a few days, or maybe even hours, depending on severity. Not everyone thinks about our world’s deadliest viruses and bacterial diseases that kill anyone ever so fast. Recently we experienced an outbreak

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    What were the primary reasons for the “fall” of Rome? Here are some of the three main reasons why the Roman Empire fell,and the causes of this fall. To start of with in the second year of the reign of Valens in 366 ce a disaster happened..an earthquake came upon the roman empire and destroyed numerous amounts of cities. But the roman empire was not prepared for this earthquake, this caused many deaths. Also shores were left dry in the mediterranean but then the tide returned very soon with the weight

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    My topic is about the black plague. I choose this topic because I thought that it would be interesting to learn about the most catastrophic disease to happen in Europe. The exchange of the black throughout Europe was the greatest catastrophe ever because it killed 50 million people, more than any other bug or virus, there were smaller breakouts, and family’s abandoned each other. I researched my topic by looking up facts about the black plague, such as how many people died, how did the people during

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    The Black Plague Dbq

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    The Black Plague or the black death, was a disease that killed about 25 million people in Western Europe in the 1300’s. The victim would first get bitten by fleas and then after 24 to 48 hours he would start to become sick. Then, the victim would start to get swelling everywhere on the body and he would get fever and chills. Only few survived this disease in Western Europe, making it one of the deadliest diseases to strike during that time. The picture that was drawn is about how the disease was

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    The outbreak of the Black Death affected Europe in many ways. It had both a negative effect and a positive effect. Some ways Europe was affected by the Black Death were economically, religiously, and it affected the population greatly. No one is absolutely sure of what the Black Death was disease wise but they do have a pretty good idea. The Black Death was almost always fatal. The Black Death was a plague that was “spread by bacillus called Yersinia pestis. [A] French biologist [named] Alexandre

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    History’s Turning Points: The Black Death described what the Black Death (also commonly called the plague) was and how it spread. The Black Death was a deadly disease epidemic that occurred from 1348 to 1350. It started in Central Asia and eventually spread to Europe. In just two short years, the disease had taken the lives of over 20 million people. The disease was caused by infected fleas which were carried and spread by black rats. At this point in time, no one knew that the rats carried the disease

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    The plague (1665), also called the Black Death, killed 20 million people throughout Europe, this means it killed one in every three people. Three writers all recount the events of the plague that swept through London, two are fiction and only one is a nonfiction account of the time. The two fiction writings are Daniel Defoe’s novel, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, and Geraldine Brooks’ historical fiction “Year of Wonders”. The nonfiction writing instead, was a diary by a man named Samuel Pepys who

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