Aids, Bubonic plague, and other bad things

By stanleygoto

  • The first microscope is built with single lens

  • Robert Hooke discovers cells“ under a mircoscope and calls them "little boxes"

  • 6137 deaths are caused by plague

  • 31,159 people have died from the black plague

  • Great Fire of London kills a majority of the rats and flea carrying Bubonic Plague

  • Van Leeuwenhoek sends letters to British Royal Society describing microscopic observations

  • Van Leeuwenhoek’s observations and work on cells becomes published

  • plague breaks out in Austria

  • The Balkans battle plague for two years

  • Cholera riots in Russia

  • Matthias Schelidien states through his observations that all plants are made of cells

  • Theodore Schwann states that all animals are composed of cells

  • Robert Koch established bacteriology as science

  • Cholera journal published

  • A major pandemic know as the 3rd pandemic begins, it starts in China and spreads throught the world. 12 million people are killed.

  • Japanese Encephalitis is discovered

  • Eberth proposed a bacillus was the cause typhoid

  • Tay-Sachs is discovered

  • Suggestions are made that chloroplasts and mitochondria might be endosymbionts

  • The 3rd pandemic comes to an end

  • 1st prevention methods of malaria are dicovered

  • AIDS is first tranfered to humans aroung the 1900s

  • In Manchuria bout 60,00 die from a outbreak of pneumonic plague

  • 60,00 people die again in Manchuria

  • The first electron microscope is constructed and used

  • cholera is widespread in Egypt

  • Buruli ulcers is discovered in Australia

  • AIDS enters tha United States aroung 1970

  • African doctors see a rise in rare odd diseases

  • Western scientists are still largly ignorant to the AIDS pandemic

  • Ebola is discovered in Zaire, Africa

  • Swine Flu is discovered by CDC

  • Smallpox declared eradicated :)

    HERRAY!

  • CDC gives AIDS its official name as Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

  • First scanning microscope which tunnels objects in the microscope, is invented

  • AIDS is detacted in Cailfornia and New York

  • The first cases are belived to be among Gay men and drug users

  • AIDS is reported among Women children and people who do not abuse drugs.

  • 300 thousand cases of AIDS have been confirmed in the United States and 100 have died.

  • Scientists discover that the HIV infection is what causes AIDS.

  • 38,000 cases of AIDS have been reported worlwide

  • drug-resistant typhoid is discovered

  • AZT is the first drug approved for treating AIDS.

  • 8 million people are estimated to be living with AIDS worldwide

  • A combination of Antiretroviral treatment and other drugs are shown to be effective in supressing AIDS

  • AIDS becomes more affordable in developing countries

  • Meningococcal Polysaccharide vaccine licensed in US

  • Three mice infected with bubonic plague escape from a Public Health Institute

  • 28% of people in developing countries are getting treament for AIDS

  • it is estimated that $14.9 billion would be needed to make a impact on the fight against AIDS

  • 18.5 million people worldwide are suspected to have AIDS

  • Cholera killed 138 in Haiti

  • A mircobicide gel in trial is shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection