4 painful fact about the latest dangerous epidemics have emerged in the 21st century

This disease status predicted the Apocalypse, but oddly enough, humanity still zhivo.1. SARS (SARS) 49,296,485



In 2002, in the Chinese province of Guangdong in six months there were more than 300 cases of pneumonia strange that refused to respond to conventional treatments. Over the next six months, the disease has claimed the lives of five people and the spring of 2003 cases of infection have been reported in Hong Kong, America, Canada and Russia.

2. Cvinoy and avian influenza (H1N1 and H5N1)



In 1997 was the first case of transmission from birds to humans. Outbreak of influenza in chickens then spread to 18 people, of whom six died. For 5 years of observations from 2003 to 2008 recorded 361 case of infection with 227 deaths caused by the disease. The last fatality occurred in 2014.

3. Virus Ebola



The Ebola virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever Ebola was discovered in 1976. The outbreak of the virus in 2014 eclipsed all previous combined. As of early 2015, there are 13 thousand infected and 5000 deaths. Outside Africa, the World Health Association has found only 24 cases of infection.

4. The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) 75,446,108



The latest infection in the list of candidates for the epidemic of the XXI century, the Middle East respiratory syndrome, open with the first cases of infection in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Currently, drugs against MERS does not exist, and a vaccine that could prevent the disease, work is underway. During the existence of the disease had accumulated 1154 cases of infection with 431 deaths.

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