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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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Europe's monarchs begin touching for the 'King's Evil' |
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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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Edward Jenner develops smallpox vaccine |
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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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1885 |
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Ross pins blame on mosquito |
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1897 |
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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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