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1900
30.4% of all deaths occurred in children of the age of five and under -
1900
Poor sanitation and hygiene caused the spread of many diseases -
1900
40 out of 45 U.S States had developed health departments -
1900
194 out of every 100,000 people were dying of TB -
1900
Typhoid Fever killed approximately 100 in 100,000 people -
Early 1900s
Water treatments became a common practice -
1908
The first countrywide health department was created -
1913
Refrigerators and freezers became available for in home use and significantly reduced the amount of foodbourne illnesses -
1918
Influenza pandemic killed 20 million people worldwide- 500,000 in the U.S. -
1919
Spanish Flu epidemic killed 20 to 100 million people worldwide- 500,00 in the U.S. -
1920
Typhoid fever only killed 33.8 in 100,000 people now -
1924
Public Health Services announced guidelines to a new milk sanitation program -
1928
Penicillin was discovered but not used for medical purposes until 1940 (antibiotics are relatively new to the public- only used for the last 60 years) -
1930s
One of the biggest concerns regarding medicine was bills. No one could pay because many were unemployed -
1930s-1950s
Health department started to prevent diseases by changing their means of sewage disposal, water treatment, food safety, and educating people on personal hygiene -
1933
The top three leading causes of death were heart disease, cancer, and pneumonia/influenza/tuberculosis -
1937
The first blood bank was opened. This helped with complicated surgeries -
Early 1940s
A vaccine had still not been invented for TB. 46 out of every 100,000 people died from this -
1943
Influenza epidemic -
1945
The first influenza vaccine was created -
1949
Vaccine programs were put into place. They were mainly used on sick, poor children -
1950
Typhoid Fever death rate down to 1.7 out of 100,000 people -
1951
Malaria is considered officially eliminated from the United States -
1962
First oral polio vaccine -
1964
First measles vaccine -
1972
The Association of Practitioners in Infection Control (APIC) was created by disease control specialists to combine research -
1974
First chicken box vaccine -
1977
First pneumonia vaccine- big discovery due to the amount of people dying of pneumonia -
1978
First vaccine invented for meningitis -
1980
Harvard Medical School discovery many new things about AIDS -
1985
First MRI machine was made. This does not have to do with infectious diseases, however is a huge medical advancement and shows how far we were at this point in time. -
1986
Researchers discover causes of the Kawasaki Diseases- this occurred in many children under 5 years old and significantly decreased the amount of deaths in children -
1992
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control is established -
1995
The Emerging Infections Program (EIP) is another program developed to help fight and cure infectious diseases -
1999
Center for Disease Control and Prevention developed the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile. This is a company that provides hospitals and other medical supplies to the United States -
2004
The CDC creates laws restricting over-the-counter drug use in the United States -
2007
The CDC requires TB contaminated patients to be put into isolation -
2008
Food safety regulations are carefully watch and adjusted due to salmonella and E.coli outbreaks -
2013
The Emergency Operations Center investigates diseases in the Middle East including Zika and a new respiratory disease -
2016
The Zika outbreak causes the Emergency Operations Center to activate in early 2016 in the United States