Disease Through History: Important Points in Human Civilization As Told Through Illness
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Updated 14 Dec 2018
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The Justinian PlagueRecurrence of the Plague of Justinian1346-52: Black Death In Europe, Africa and the Near EastBlack Death Entered into LondonAnton Van Leeuwenhoek Becomes the First Person to See Microscopic OrganismsThe bacteria responsible for "childbed fever" also known as puerperal fever is discoveredIgnaz Semmelweis Tells People to Wash Their Hands Before Delivering BabiesLouis Pasteur Tries (and Succeeds) Debunking The Theory of Spontaneous GenerationLouis Pasteur Realizes Germs Can Make Wine Taste Bad and Possibly Hurt PeopleJoseph Lister Uses Carbolic Acid and AmnesthesiaRobert Koch And Anthrax In An Ox's EyeYersinia Pestis is Pinned as Black Death Cause By Alexander YersinPaul-Louis Simond Imprisons Rats in Two-Tier Jar Cage, Discovers Truth about the Plague and RatsLast US Outbreak of the Plague: Los AngelesCreation of the Anthrax Vaccine (for animals)Permafrost Brings New Threat of AnthraxAnthrax Vaccine for HumansAnthrax And The United StatesRabies Vaccine is Created By Louis PasteurWorld Rabies Day is BornHernando Cortes Comes to Mexico and Brings the Gift of DiseasesSmallpox Destroys the city of TenochtitlanLady Mary and Variolation; Boston too Gets a Touch of Smallpox VariolationEdward Jenner Makes a Smallpox VaccineLast Naturally Occurring Smallpox VictimSmallpox Declared Eraticated>58000 Cases of Polio; Worst US OutbreakSalk Creates his (IPV) Polio VaccineSabin Gets His (OPV) Vaccine Approved In the USAThree Polio Endemic CountriesMeasles More Dreaded than SmallpoxJohn Enders Makes the First Measles VaccineMaurice Hilleman Creates an Improved Measles VaccineJohn Enders and Dr. Thomas Peebles Isolate the Measles VirusLakefield, MMR and austismGreenland Gets Hit with MeaslesCutter Batch of Polio4th Liberty Loan Parade: Spanish Flu from September-November 1918Spanish Flu Vaccine? Not So MuchAsian Flu: 1957-58Russian Flu: 1889-93Hong Kong Flu: 1968-69Italians refer to a Florence epidemic as influenza di freddo or cold influencePfeiffer's bacteriumInfluenza Virus Isolated in PigsInfluenza Virus Isolated in HumansYear of the Swine (Flu)Avian Flu/Bird FluSyphilius Sive Morbus Gallicus is written by Girolamo FracastroSyphilius Outbreak in Naples: Columbus' Fault Or Total Coincidence?Schaudinn and Hoffmann Discover Treponema pallidumExample One of Why We Need Ethics in Science: The Tuskegee Study 1931-72Pencillin Discovered by Alexander Fleming, Becomes Available for Treating SyphilisPeter Buxton Tries to Stop Tuskegee StudyBill Clinton Apologizes for Unethical DoctorsCouncil on Bioethics is EstablishedExample Two of Why We Need Ethics in Science: Guatemalan Study 1946-48Egypt makes a reference about Leprosy, first ever referenceMycobacterium leprea, the Bacteria Responsible for Leprosy, Discovered by Armaeur HansenPest Houses and LeprosySenate Bill 4086 is Passed to Make a Single Place for Leprosy QuarantineKalaupapa: Hawaii's Leper ColonyKalapaupapa Ends the Mandatory Quarantine of Those with LeprosyFirland Sanatorium Is OpenedRobert Koch Discovers Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Cause of TuberculosisSelman Wakman and Albert Schatz Discover StreptomycinTB, MDR TB and XDR TB: Why You Should Always Follow DirectionsIrish Potato Famine: 1845-60British Scientists Discover First Strains of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus areus (MSRA)First US human case of MSRAMax Theiler Recieves Nobel Prize for Work On Yellow Fever VaccineWalter Reed and Colleagues Show That Yellow Fever is Caused By MosquitosPhiladelphia Yellow Fever OutbreakNew Orleans Yellow Fever OutbreakCarlos Finlay Is First to Call Connection Between Yellow Fever and MosquitoesStubbins Ffirth Does Experiments About Yellow Fever, Drinks Vomit to Do SoOutbreak of Yellow Fever Leds to Fines and Cistern CoversPlague of Athens 430-426: About TyphusNapolean's Retreat From Moscow Was Riddled With Lice and TyphusMassilia and New York, Typhus and the Jewish PeopleArmenian Genocide and TyphusBath Riots: Typhus and Bad Baths Drive Mexican Women MadEl Paso Jail FireLos Angeles and Endemic Typhus in 2018Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle Makes Connection Between Typhus and LiceZika First Discovered in UgandaFirst Human Case of ZikaOutbrea of Zika in France Believed Related to Guille-Barre Syndrome, Microcephaly and ParalysisBrazil's Cases of Microcephaly Rise to Over 3,500Malaria Parasite Discovered by Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran1832: Cholera Comes to New YorkNei Chig: First mentions of what is believed to be malariaQuinine Used By Jesuit Missionaries To Handle Malaria(Re)Discovery of Artemisinin216 Million Cases of Malaria Worldwide; 445,000 DeadSir John Harrington Describes the First Modern Flush TolietThe Great Stink of London1880: Karl Joseph Eberth Discovers Typhoid baccillius; 1884: Georg Gaffky Confirms it1906-7: Largest US Outbreak of Typhoid and Typhoid MaryAlmroth Edward Wright Creates First Effective Typhoid Fever VaccinePakistan XDR-Typhoid1854 Cholera, Jon Snow, and the Broad Street in LondonMax von Pettenkofer Drinks Some Stool (so to prove Cholera was caused by miasma)Robert Koch Isolates Cholera Bacteria1897: Hamburg, Altona, and Cholera is Proven to be GermsDr Joseph Browne and William Weston Propose a Way to Get Cleaner Water in New YorkNew York Cholera Epidemic 1849Haiti is Hit by An Earthquake Followed by A Terrible UN Diseaster (Featuring Cholera)Yemen Cholera Outbreak 2015-CurrentRomaine Lettuce and E coli US OutbreakTheodore Escherich Discovers E coli in the Human Colon1992-93 E coli OutbreakRuth Bishop Discovers RotavirusRotavirus Vaccines IntroducedLong Beach Rotavirus OutbreakAdult Living Facility Rotavirus OutbreakChildren Care Center RotavirusCarlo Urbani Discovers SARS/SARS outbreakPatient Zero of MERS comes to Islam Hussein's LabNovember 27 2018 MERS StatisticsEbola Discovered in the Ebola River in the Republic of Congo2014-16 Ebola OutbreakThomas Eric Duncan: The US Case of EbolaEbola in the Congo in 2017Ebola Outbreak in the Congo 2018Patient Zero of HIV?Young Men Have Rare Infections: AIDS and HIV Starts To Be NoticedCDC Changes GRID to AIDS in September 1982USDA Starts To Have Blood Banks Screen Blood for HIVWHO Launches Global Program on AIDS; First Retroviral drug for HIVBlood Clot Test for HIV is ApprovedFirst World AIDS DayFreddie Mercury, Lead Singer of Queen, Dies of AIDSTuring Pharmaceuticals Increases the Price of AIDS Drug DaraphimPaul Ehrlich Wins Nobel Prize for Antitoxins But He Did Much More (Particularly Involving Syphilis)
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