Infectious Disease-- HISTORICAL TIME LINE



Plagues and History-- HISTORICAL TIME LINE

The 10 plagues of Egypt | 1200BC WATER TO BLOOD -(

| LOSS OF FIRST BORN

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descriptions of LEPROSY | 1000BC THE "UNCLEAN"

(BIBLICAL, MEDIEVAL) | 100BC LEPER COLONIES

| 1200AD LAZARUS BELL,

| ELIMINATED FROM SOCIETY

| 1800- LEPER COLONIES FLURISHED

| 1940s

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THE PLAGUE OF ATHENS | 430 PLAGUE FROM N. AFRICA

"THUCYDIDES SYMDROME" | ↓ 1/4 OF POPULATION KILLED

| 427BC END OF PELOPENESIAN WAR

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SMALLPOX | 165- SMALLPOX INTRODUCED INTO

| 180 WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE

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MEASLES ? | 251 ANTONINE PLAGUE

| 5000 DEATHS/DAY IN ROME

JUSTINIAN'S PLAGUE | 541 THE PLAGUE - 1ST PANDEMIC

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THE BLACK DEATH | 1347- BUBONIC/PNEUMONIC/SEPTICEMIC

| 1351 PLAGUE - 2ND PANDEMIC

| 25-50% LOSS OF EUROPEAN POPULATION

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THE GREAT POX | 1500 SYPHILIS INTRODUCED INTO EUROPE

SYPHILIS | PROBABLY FROM ASIA OR N AFRICA

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SMALLPOX, MEASLES, ETC. | 1500- NATIVE AMERICANS INFECTED BY

| 1600 OLD WORLD DISEASES

| DECLINE OF AZTECS AND INCAS

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THE 1ST CHOLERA PANDEMIC | 1815 SERIES OF PANDEMICS OUT OF SE ASIA

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THE THIRD PLAGUE PANDEMIC | 1890s PLAGUE SPREADS TO AMERICAS

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THE SPANISH FLU | 1918 MORE THAN 20 MILLION DEATHS

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PENICILLIN DISCOVERED | 1927 ALEXANDER FLEMING

| (BECAME AVAILABLE IN 1942)

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DNA STRUCTURE & | 1953 WATSON & CRICK

DEVELOPMENT OF MOLEC BIO | ↓

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VIROID DISEASES DESCRIBED | 1972 T. O. DIENER

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VIRAL GENOMES SEQUENCED | 1977-8 FIERS & F. SANGER

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AIDS FIRST REPORTED | 1981 NEW VIRAL DISEASE FROM AFRICA

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PRION DISEASES CHARACTERIZED | 1982 SCRAPIE, CJD & KURU (S. PRUISNER)

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MAD COW DISEASE & vCJD | 1985 -> ABOUT 150 HUMAN CASES BY 2004

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HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDOME | 1993 NEWLY DISCOVERED HANTAVIRUSES

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WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS | 1999 FIRST CASES IN USA, NOW ENDEMIC

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