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 Plague of Athens kills a third of the population |
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| Plague of Justinian kills 25% of population |
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| Robert the Bruce falls victim to leprosy |
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1339 |
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| Black Death kills a quarter of Europe's population |
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| Syphilis first described in Europe |
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| Old and New Worlds exchange diseases |
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| Great Plague of London kills 20% of the population |
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| Yellow fever in Philadelphia kills 10% of the population |
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1793 |
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| Edward Jenner develops smallpox vaccine |
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1796 |
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| John Snow stops cholera epidemic |
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| Prince Albert dies of typhoid |
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| 30% of deaths in England and Wales caused by eight infectious diseases |
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| Measles in Fiji |
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| Koch discovers TB bacillus |
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| Pasteur inoculates with rabies vaccine |
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| Ross pins blame on mosquito |
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| TB still a major cause of death |
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| Princess of Wales donates Finsen lamp to the London Hospital |
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| 'Typhoid Mary' |
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| Spanish 'flu kills 30 million people worldwide |
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| Nuffield builds 'iron lungs' |
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| Smallpox eradicated |
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| HIV virus described |
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| 36 million HIV positive |
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