Humans have been fighting viruses throughout history. Here are the 12 viruses that are the world's worst killers, based on their mortality rates, or the sheer numbers of people they have killed.
Streptococcus pyogenes causes over 700 million infections globally every year and has a high mortality rate of 25 per cent in serious cases - once you have an infection the bacteria can cause a range of diseases ranging from sore throat and impetigo up to scarlet fever. Luckily, the bacteria is affected by penicillin so is treated easily in.Bioweapons such as Anthrax, Botulism and Variola have been studied as weapons, engineered and in some cases even deployed to devastating affect. Army-technology lists the world’s most deadly bio-weapons. Praveen 12 April 2015. The Hanta virus from Bunyaviridae family of viruses has a mortality rate of up to 50%. Image courtesy of Gleiberg.Top 10 Reasons The Zombie Apocalypse Could Really Happen! Top 10 Reasons The Zombie Apocalypse Could Really Happen! History is dotted with epidemics and plagues, but a certain number of them stand out as unique for their severity and impact on future generations. This is a list of the worst plagues in man’s recorded history.
Interferon “Fingerprint” Refines Diagnoses of Rare Autoinflammatory Diseases, Identifies Three New Conditions. February 24, 2020. Medicine has recognized rare autoinflammatory diseases for just over 20 years, and while early diagnosis and treatment can improve patient outcomes, similar symptoms across different diseases can make them difficult to diagnose and manage.
The digestive system made up of the gastrointestinal tract (GI), liver, pancreas, and gallbladder helps the body digest food. Digestion is important for breaking down food into nutrients, which your body uses for energy, growth, and cell repair. Some digestive diseases and conditions are acute.
The Nastiest Feud in Science. A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions.
This is a curious book - ostensibly an 'atlas' using the latest data available, the author charts the epidemiological history of twenty of the nastiest, mostly killer, diseases - from the Spanish flu, measles and plague to ebola and zika. The diseases covered are split into their method of transmission.
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The miasma theory, which attributed any number of diseases to malevolent air, was well on its way to being debunked by the middle of the 19th century, but one person who clung to it was Frederick.
The siege-lines stand expectantly the earthworks finished and the bulwarks fully manned. The walls of the small stone fortress stand tall against them though surrounded by the enemy’s vastly superior force. For now all there is is time to wait, to wait for a breach in the walls or main gates should the enemy sappers be successful or for those within to starve if her constable were ill prepared.
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What is the worst computer virus? Some did billions of dollars in damages and lost productivity. Read about the 10 worst computer viruses of all time.
The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Book of Dartmoor, by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
HBC is particularly calling out Scott’s endorsement of Theil, this is not a general argument about Theil’s actions or the morality there in, it is an attempt to hold Theil’s actions to the standards as set by Scott, in this essay.
Among infectious diseases, tuberculosis is the city's top killer, the Shanghai Health Bureau said. A total of 139 people were killed by serious infectious diseases in Shanghai in 2011, and 44 of them died from TB. Shanghai registered 3,760 residents with tuberculosis, including 1,988 infective cases in 2010.
This blog is called The City of Lost Books, and has concentrated on quite a few little-known texts in recent months: the fantastic novels of Margaret Irwin; the only novel by the modernist art critic Herbert Read; William Morris’s brilliant last romance The Water of the Wondrous Isles.Few books, however, can have been more justly neglected than Clifford Mills’s Where the Rainbow Ends (1912.
Following are the 10 fields in which microorganisms are used in hundreds of ways. 1) Microorganisms in food Microorganisms are used in the production of fermented food and beverages. E.g. Yeast, Penicillium, Lactobacillus. 2) Microorganisms in Med.