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  2. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    Chronological table of epidemic and pandemic events in human history Event Years Location Disease Death toll (estimate) Ref. 1350 BC plague of Megiddo c. 1350 BC Megiddo, land of Canaan: Amarna letters EA 244, Biridiya, mayor of Megiddo complains to Amenhotep III of his area being "consumed by death, plague and dust" Unknown [29]

  3. List of deadliest animals to humans - Wikipedia

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    The Deadliest Animal in the World, Gates Notes; These Are The Top 15 Deadliest Animals on Earth, Science Alert; Top 10 Deadliest Animals To Humans In The World, Toptenia; The 25 Most Dangerous Animals In The World, List 25; The Most Dangerous Animals in the World, Animal Danger; Top 10 Most Dangerous Animals In The World, Conservation Institute

  4. Yersinia pestis - Wikipedia

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    Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis; formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillus bacterium without spores that is related to both Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, the pathogen from which Y. pestis evolved [1] [2] and responsible for the Far East scarlet-like fever.

  5. Plague is among the deadliest bacterial infections in human ...

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    Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.

  6. The 9 Worst Years in History to be Alive - AOL

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    The Spanish Flu, the second deadliest pandemic in history after the bubonic plague, along with the aftermath of World War I and ensuing political and social chaos, made 1918 a tough time to be alive.

  7. The plague, fevers, tularemia: The diseases fleas can carry ...

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    Mortality from bubonic plague today is between 1% and 10%, whereas septicemic plague may have mortality as high as 50% — and if untreated, it's over 90%. Fleas can spread other diseases too

  8. Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    A natural reservoir of plague is located in western Yunnan and is an ongoing health risk today. The third pandemic of plague originated in this area after a rapid influx of Han Chinese to exploit the demand for minerals, primarily copper, in the latter half of the 19th century. [50] By 1850, the population had exploded to over 7,000,000 people.

  9. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.