10 Hottest Diseases Throughout History of the World
10. Typhus
Typhus is one of several similar diseases caused by Rickettsiae. The name comes from Greek meaning typhos smoky or vague, describing a state of mind of those affected with typhus. Reliable picture of the disease first appeared during the Spanish siege of Moorish Granada in 1489. These include descriptions of fever and red spots on arms, back and chest, advanced to delirium, gangrenous sores, and the smell of rotting flesh. During the siege, the Spaniards lost 3,000 people to enemy action but an additional 17,000 died of typhus. Epidemics occurred throughout Europe from 16th to 19th centuries, and occurred during the English Civil War, the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars. In the Thirty Years' War, 8 million Germans were wiped out by plague and typhoid fever. During Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812, more French soldiers died of typhus than were killed by the Russians.
9. Ebola
Ebola hemorrhagic fever named after the Ebola River, where the first recognized outbreak of fever occurred. The virus is characterized by long filaments, and has a shape similar to the Marburg virus, also in the family Filoviridae, and have similar symptoms. It remains largely unclear until 1989 with the outbreak in Reston, Virginia.This virus has been confirmed to be transmitted through body fluids, however, transmission through oral exposure and through conjunctival exposure is possible.In the early stages, Ebola may not be very contagious. Contact with someone in the early stages may not transmit the disease. As the disease progresses, bodily fluids from diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding represent an extreme biohazard. Due to lack of proper equipment and hygienic practices, large-scale epidemics occur mostly in poor, remote areas without modern hospitals or medical staff educated.
8. Malaria
Some symptoms of malaria are anemia, fever, chills, and even coma or death. The disease is usually spread when people are bitten by Anopheles mosquitoes, which become infected from another human. Every year, there are about 400 million cases of malaria, killing millions of people. This disease is one of the most common infectious diseases, and serious problems. Currently, no vaccine has a major impact has been made, but many are being created.
7. Cholera
In the most severe form of cholera was very fatal. If not treated within three hours, those infected will die. Symptoms of diarrhea, shock, nosebleeds, leg cramps, vomiting, and dry skin. The first cholera outbreak in Bengal, and from there spread to India, China, Indonesia, and the Caspian Sea. When the pandemic finally ended in 1826, there were more than 15 million deaths in India alone. Oral rehydration therapy and antibiotics to treat cholera.
6. Smallpox
Smallpox is believed to begin to infect humans in 10,000 BC In England in the 18th century the disease has killed about 400,000 people each year and is responsible for most of the blindness. Other signs include vomiting, back pain, fever, and headache. The earliest evidence of smallpox in ancient Egyptian mummies. It is estimated that the Egyptian merchants brought the disease to India, where it remained endemic during 2000 years. After successful vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in December 1979. To this day, smallpox is a disease transmitted only humans had completely eradicated.
5. Spanish Flu
The 1918 flu pandemic (commonly referred to as the Spanish flu) was an influenza pandemic that spread to nearly every part of the world. This is caused by influenza incredible evil and deadly strain of virus A subtype H1N1. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographical origin of the virus.Most of the victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks which predominantly affect juvenile patients, the elderly, or weakened.pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. It is estimated that anywhere from 20 to 100 million people died worldwide, or equivalent with an estimated one third of the population of Europe. Interestingly, the Spanish flu originated from the same subtype (influenza A virus subtype H1N1) as swine flu.
4. Yellow fever
Yellow Fever Symptoms are things like fever, shivering, slow heartbeat, nausea, vomiting, and constipation. WHO estimates that this disease causes around 30,000 deaths every year, when left unvaccinated. A well-known outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1793. This disease has killed about 10,000 people in Philadelphia alone. Most of the residents fled the city, including the president. But, the mayor stay and live and order be restored soon. Pictured above is a yellow fever quarantine station.
3. Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, or "consumption" as it is commonly known, caused the most widespread public attention in the 20th century to the 19th and early as the endemic disease of the urban poor. In 1815, In 1815, one in four deaths in the UK consumption, by 1918 one in six deaths in France are still caused by TB. In the 20th century TB killed an estimated 100 million people are estimated. Tuberculosis is often deadly disease that usually affects the lungs. Symptoms of cough, weight loss, night sweats, and blood stained sputum. Framework remains to show that the people back in 7000 BC who are infected with TB.
2. Polio
Polio is highly infectious. It is a disease that affects the central nervous system and spine, sometimes leaving the victim paralyzed. Symptoms of headache, neck, back, and abdominal pain, vomiting, fever, and irritability. In 1952, outbreaks in the United States left more than 20,000 children and crippled more than 3,000 dead. Since then the vaccine has been made and most children are protected.
1. Bubonic plague
lymph nodes, skin becomes red and then black, heavy breathing, sore feet, vomiting blood, and terrible pain is some of the symptoms. The pain is caused by decaying / rotting flesh. All together this disease has caused more than 200 million deaths.Perhaps the most famous and terrible pandemic in Europe in the late 1300s. It was commonly known as the Black Death. It is commonly known as the Black Death. This incident almost halved the population of Europe. The plague is usually caused by the bite of an infected flea. Now, in modern times, some vaccines have been created, and people who are infected are now treated and cured. Pictured above is the one who suffered during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Algeria in 2003.
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