National Geographic - USA (2020-08)
has taught us BONES FROM 30,000 PLAGUE VICTIMS WHO DIED DURING A 14TH-CENTURY OUTBREAK ADORN THE SEDLEC OSSUARY IN THE CZECH REP ...
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for us today AUTOWORKERS EAT LUNCH IN A FACTORY IN WUHAN, CHINA. THEY MUST WEAR MASKS, UNDERGO TEMPERATURE CHECKS, AND MAINTAIN ...
46 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC On a Sunday early in March, as the COVID-19 outbreak was racing across the planet, the U.S. Coast Guard c ...
STOPPING PANDEMICS 47 Passengers gather on the decks of the Grand Princess as it prepares to dock in Oakland, California, on Mar ...
48 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC The New World had felt its dreadful effects before, passing through in unpredictable waves over 200 years ...
A DERMATOLOGY PROFESSOR IN OHIO DOCUMENTED A SURVIVOR’S SMALL- POX SCARS IN 1902. A VACCINE HAD EXISTED FOR 100 YEARS, BUT THE U ...
50 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Tradesmen and laborers couldn’t afford to protect their families because of the high cost of inoculation ...
STOPPING PANDEMICS 51 commonly imagined.” But his otherwise eccen- tric manuscript went unpublished. It would take scientists an ...
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IN FOCUS Plague The third pandemic of the plague began in China in 1855 and reached every continent but Antarctica between 1894 ...
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56 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DATA SHEET Disease has spelled suffering, death, and even the demise of entire civilizations. Some pathog ...
STOPPING PANDEMICS 57 estimated deaths 5 M 0 10 M 15 M 20 M 25 M 30 M 35 M 45 M 40 M 50 M 50 M 32 M 1 M 1.5 M 2.5 M 1 M 10 M 1.1 ...
58 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC “So unforeseen and appalling was the attack,” wrote a district official, that astonished resi- dents “fle ...
STOPPING PANDEMICS 59 British civil servant named Edwin Chadwick, a Dickensian bureaucrat, tall, round-faced, hair smeared in ha ...
60 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC In 1849 Great Britain’s new General Board of Health published a “Cholera Map of the Metropolis,” showing ...
STOPPING PANDEMICS 61 In the afterm ath of a victory over the French in 1743, about 1,500 British sol- diers, uninjured but deat ...
IN FOCUS Polio A highly infectious virus that mainly affects children, polio has been eradicated in much of the world thanks to ...
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