what would you consider todays bulbonic plague, or black death?
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All those STDs that people pick up just cause they don't control their own hormones. Like syphillis, genital herpes, gonerreah, and yes, AIDS. Except the main difference is, unlike the bulbonic plague, these are preventable.
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The bubonic plague started in China but spread quickly over trading routes to Europe. It started in rats but spread to humans by fleabites. Rats and fleas were everywhere so the disease spread easily, slowing down only in winter when the flea population went dormant. The disease could either attack the lymphatic system, spreading quickly through the body, or the lungs, which led to people choking to death on their own blood. There were, of course, no antibiotics and no natural immunity to this new germ. Because people did not understand how the infection was spread, they couldn't contain it.
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My vote would be vampire...more powerful...mentally in control...\n\nWerewolves do, however, have the ability to exist during daylight hours in human form, so that is a plus...\n\nI also believe it is harder to kill a werewolf...
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Euthenasia is *infinitely* more humane, but it goes against some archaic religious rules so we starve our terminally ill instead.\n\nTragic.
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Far from the deadliest epidemic.\n\nThe Bubonic Plague. \n\nJust mention the name and you will send shivers down the spine of many people. \n\nThere is no doubt that this disease was deadly. Deadly and gruesome to watch. \n\nThe death rate was 90% for those exposed to the bacterium. It was transmitted by the fleas from infected Old English black rats. The symptoms were clear: swollen lymph nodes (buboes, hence the name), high fever, and delirium. In the worst case, the lungs became infected and the pneumonic form was spread from person to person by coughing, sneezing, or simply talking. \n\nFrom the time of infection to death was less than one week. \n\nThere were three major epidemics - in the 6th, 14th, and 17th centuries. \n\nThe death toll was 137 million victims. \n\nAs a result, the plague is considered to be the worst epidemic of all time, but it wasn't (not that we are downplaying the severity of the plague). \n\nAt its worst, the bubonic plague killed 2 million victims a year. \n\nThis is certainly a bad situation, but there is one that is worse. \n\nThe pandemic (an epidemic that is spread worldwide) that killed at least 25 million people in one year. \n\nA disease that is largely forgotten. \n\nA disease that occurred in the 20th century! \n\nI know what you're thinking - AID's, Syphilis, or the dreaded Ebola. \n\nAll are wrong. \n\nIt was the influenza of 1918-1919, right after World War I (the war killed 9 million men in 4 years) \n\nThis was no minor disease - everyone on the planet was at risk. \n\nAnd it was started right here in the good old U. S. of A. \n\nIn one year, nearly twenty million cases were reported in the United States, accounting for almost one million deaths. \n\nThe cause is still unknown, but is believed to have been a mutated swine virus. \n\nIt all started on the morning of March 11, 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas. \n\nA company cook named Albert Mitchell reported to the infirmary with typical flu-like symptoms - a low-grade fever, mild sore throat, slight headache, and muscle aches. Bed rest was recommended. \n\nBy noon, 107 soldiers were sick. \n\nWithin two days, 522 people were sick. Many were gravely ill with severe pneumonia. \n\nThen reports started coming in from other military bases around the country. \n\nThousands of sailors docked off the East Coast were sick. \n\nWithin a week, the influenza was hitting isolated places, such as the island of Alcatraz. \n\nWhatever the cause, it was clearly airborne. \n\nWithin seven days, every state in the Union had been infected. \n\nThen it spread across the Atlantic. \n\nBy April, French troops and civilians were infected. \n\nBy mid-April, the disease had spread to China and Japan. \n\nBy May, the virus was spread throughout Africa and South America. \n\nThe actual killer was the pneumonia that accompanied the infection. \n\nIn Philadelphia, 158 out of every 1000 people died. 148 out of 1000 in Baltimore. 109 out of 1000 in Washington, D. C.. \n\nThe good news (if there was any) was that the disease peaked within two to three weeks after showing up in a given city. It left as quickly as it arrived. \n\nThe United States death toll was a total of 850,000 people, making it an area of the world that was least devastated by this virus. \n\nSixty percent of the Eskimo population was wiped out in Nome, Alaska. \n\n80-90% of the Samoan population was infected, many of the survivors dying from starvation (they lacked the energy to feed themselves). \n\nLuxury ocean liners from Europe would arrive in New York with 7% less passengers than they embarked with. The confined area of the ship was especially conducive to the spread of the disease. \n\nIn the end, 25 million people had died. Some estimates put the number as high as 37 million. \n\nEighteen months after the disease appeared, the flu bug vanished and has never shown up again. \n\nSo what happened? \n\nUntil recently, no one was really sure.  In March of 1997, the news broke that res
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yes, it is. 100 years ago you'd die of horrible diseases and infection, thugs, nature's wrath, wars (the last decade registered the lowest rate of wars in the history of mankind), poverty etc.
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you could have conjunctivitis(pink eye). I would get it checked, conjunctivitis can become serious.\nI researched this on the web for myself. I actually have the plague. I wish I had conjunctivitis instead.
60398
Clowns! Leeches, wild boars, the boogeyman, thunder but not lightning, and cockroaches. Nothing lame like the dark or heights :P
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Bird flu is not equivalent to Y2K; it is worse! It kills people, not computer systems! People can function without computers but they can't function if they are dead!
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Rotting flesh!\n\nhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/01/14.html
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Which one is worse for humanity????  That's simple. Which one kills living human beings instead of potential to be a living human being?
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Fever \n\nChills\nMyalgias\nSore throat\nHeadache\nWeakness\nMalaise\nEnlarged, painful, swollen lymph node\nAbdominal pain - Only presenting symptom more common in a patient presenting with septicemic plague (primary blood-borne plague) versus one presenting with bubonic plague \n\nNausea, vomiting (bloody at times)\nConstipation, diarrhea, and black or tarry stools\nGastrointestinal complaints (may precede a bubo)\nCough, which may be productive of bloody sputum\nShortness of breath\nStiff neck (if meningitic infiltration by plague bacillus has occurred)
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As stated before, pestilence is not a disease itself.\n The definition:\npes·ti·lence (pst-lns)\nn.\n\n   1. A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.\n   2. An epidemic of such a disease.\n\n\nSo, you would consider an entire town having the plague a Pestilence of plague.\n\nSo there are no symptoms of pestilence.  Teh causes would be any easily transmitted disease that can spread through a population rapidly causing infirment and disability, and ultimately death.
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i think human diseases r interesting. besides that, how bout healing properties of some tradisional herbs/plants? i'm currently working on pathogenic bacteria. maybe u can try to look into pathogens too? since pathogen like SARS, avian influenza and HIV are emerging problems for mankind... most importantly, which area r u interested?
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Terrible.  Bitterly cold.  Overrun with disease.\n\nMany, many deaths due to starvation, freezing, and disease.
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With a tinge of moral/imperial hubris?, I'm not certain. My diagnosis would be Narcissistic personality disorder and Shared psychotic disorder with "Dead Eye" Dick.
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BLASPHEMER!! hahaha! that's pretty funny! I think you should live for that very reason!  :)