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Swine Flu Strikes Again. 06/12/2009

 

Here is an interesting article you might want to read before I continue:  Swine Flu Victim

Throughout history there have been great plagues that decimate the population.  Black Plague,

Is it Time?

The following are epidemics which spread across several continents.

• 165 – 180: Antonine Plague, perhaps smallpox
• 251 – 266: Plague of Cyprian
• 541: the Plague of Justinian[1]
• 1300s: the Black Death
• 1501 – 1587: typhus
• 1732 – 1733: influenza
• 1775 – 1776: influenza
• 1816 – 1826: cholera
• 1829 – 1851: cholera
• 1847 – 1848: influenza
• 1852 – 1860: cholera
• 1855 – 1950s: bubonic plague: Third Pandemic
• 1857 – 1859: influenza
• 1863 – 1875: cholera
• 1889 – 1892: influenza
• 1899 – 1923: cholera
• 1918 – 1920: avian flu: Spanish flu: more people were hospitalized in World War I from this epidemic than wounds. Estimates of the dead range from 20 to 100 million worldwide[2]
• 1960s: cholera called El Tor
• 1980s – present: HIV
• 2009: H1N1 flu (also known as the swine flu)[3]

Looking at this chart things seem to make sense,...   I'll do my best to share what I hear.  And keep those tips coming in.