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We’ve all read books that we wished we could live in. Furthermore, we’ve all read books with characters we wished were real. While today’s fiction gives us characters like Noah from The Notebook, Edward from Twilight, and a host of other new literary hunks that have captured the hearts and imaginations of girls and women [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Downing on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Literature · Tagged 18th century literature, 19th century literature, 20th century literature, Atticus Finch, Ayn Rand, Books, Bram Stoker, Catch 22, Catherine Earnshaw, cholera, classic literature, Dracula, Edward Cullen, Elizabeth Bennet, Emily Bronte, Emma, Florentino Ariza, Gabrial Garcia Marquez, George Bailey, George Knightley, Harper Lee, Heathcliff, herman melville, Howard Roark, Jane Austen, Janie Crawford, John Joseph Yossarian, Joseph Heller, literary hunks, Literature, Love in the Time of Cholera, male book characters, male characters, male literary characters, moby dick, Mr Darcy, opinon, Pride and Prejudice, Queequeg, sexy male literary characters, Tea Cake, The Fountainhead, Their Eyes Were Watching God, To Kill a Mockingbird, wuthering heights, Yossarian, Zora Neale Hurston
The Influenza pandemic of 1918 caused more deaths than the four years of the Bubonic Plague. Not only did the pandemic kill more people than died in World War I, but it killed more people than all the wars of the 20th century combined. It is believed that the influenza pandemic of 1918 killed 25 [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, April 11, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Health, History · Tagged Africa, AIDS, Animal virology, Army, Asia, Asian Flu outbreak, average flu, Avian influenza, Biology, Boston, brazil, Britain, British Army, bubonic plague, Camp Devens, Camp Funston, chemical structure, cholera, dangerous infectious diseases, dehydration, dengue, disease, epidemic, Epidemiology, Europe, every major influenza A, excess influenza, FDA, federal government, flu, Flu pandemic, Fort Riley, France, Germany, H3N2 influenza, Haskell, Haskell County, highly infectious disease, highly infectious nature, Human flu, illness, immune systems, infection, infectious disease, infectious diseases, influenza, Influenza A, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Influenza epidemic, Influenza pandemic, J.S. Oxford, Kansas, Kansas flu, King, La Grippe, Massachusetts, Medicine, Microbiology, milder seasonal flu, North America, oil form, Pandemics, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, plague, pneumonia, president, purulent bronchitis, Russian flu, scientist, seasonal flu, secondary infections, South Pacific, Southeast Asia, Spain, spanish flu, strain, strongest immune systems, The New York Times, The New York Times Co, Typhoid, U.S. Public Health Service, United Kingdom, United States, United States Army, Veteran's Day, well known influenza, woodrow wilson, World Health Organization
The death toll from it has yet to reach 100, but an outbreak of swine flu has gotten huge amounts of attention in the media in recent weeks. Even though regular flu viruses have killed thousands in that time, swine flu is all over the news because of worry that it could escalate into a [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 1:01 am
Filed under Health, History · Tagged antonine plague, black death, bubonic plague, cholera, cholera pandemics, death, diseases, flu, infectious diseases, influenza, Malaria, Medicine, mosquito, mosquitoes, outbreak, pandemic, plague, plague of athens, Plague of Justinian, smallpox, spanish flu, swine flu, third pandemic, Typhoid, typhus, virus, viruses
Warning: Some of the images and video may be disturbing. The common cold has no cure. Scientists have been trying for centuries to find the cure, which would undoubtedly make our lives easier. However, the common cold has nothing on these 10 infectious diseases. The diseases are, for lack of a better word, so viral [...]
Posted by William O'Dell on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 12:05 am
Filed under History, Nature · Tagged Animal, anthrax, Bizarre, cholera, common cold, cure, death, Ebola, fatality rate, Health, infectious diseases, influenza, lethal diseases, Malaria, medical, outbreak, SARS, smallpox, spanish flu, top 10 list, Typhoid, typhoid fever, typhoid mary, vaccination, variola virus, virus, viruses, War
