The Six Worst Killer Plagues in History
Six raging epidemics that shocked the world.
1. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
(1981 – today)
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) was first recognized in 1981 and originated from Africa. It has led to the deaths of more than 2.1 million people, including 330,000 children. 77% of women in sub-Saharan Africa are living with AIDS.
AIDS is an infectious disease that attacks the human immune system. It is caused by a retrovirus and spread by transfer of infected blood, a contaminated hypodermic needles or by being born to a mom who is infected.
2. Malaria
(1600 – today)
Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases caused by a protozoan transmitted by infected anopheles female mosquitoes, and resulting in intermittent chills and fever or any foul of unwholesome air. It results in about one to two million deaths annually; most of which are young children. Malaria originated from Africa and eventually spread through in other places in Asia and some parts of America.
3. Typhus
(430 BC? – today)
Typhus is one of the oldest pestilential diseases of mankind caused by louse-borne bacteria. It is an acute, specific infection caused by Rickettsia prowazeki. It’s consists of groups of contagious rickettsial diseases marked by high fever, a rash, a nervous and mental disorders and extreme prostration. Most of Napoleon’s soldiers in Russia were killed by Typhus between 1919 and 1923; 3 million people have killed.
4. Cholera
(1817 – today)
Cholera is an acute, infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, epidemic disease, characterized by serious intestinal disorders. Eight types of cholera pandemics have killed millions of people worldwide as it first originated in the Ganges River delta in India.
5. Smallpox
(430 BC? – 1979)
Smallpox is a contagious, epidemics deadly disease throughout history caused by the variola virus that emerged in human populations and eradicated from nature. This contagious disease killed 3 million people yearly in the 20th century. Smallpox was started in East Asia and spread through India, Africa and the Middle East.
6. Spanish Flu
(1918 – 1919)
Spanish Flu is an influenza pandemic that killed between 30 to 100 million people with unusually high death rates among healthy adults and young in less than 2 years as it rapidily spread around the world. It was the worst infectious pandemic in history and originated in France in 1916.
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rutherfranc | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
another informative article CP! I liked the way you chose your pictures to got with the narrative, it really emphasized the title `killer plague`..
Mythili Kannan | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Good information on terrific diseases
Kate Smedley | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Some shocking photos that illustrated your points so well. Well researched article.
LBA | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
well illustrated and just a good article.
NabilMish | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
What about THE Plague – bubonic? It may have claimed 200 MILLION lives, and still exists today…
black death | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
how could you miss the bubonic plague?! it killed A THIRD OF EUROPE!!!!! over 200,000,000 people. if you google “plague” bubonic is the first item. probably the second most deadly disease ever, second only to influenza.
MJPatrick | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
The photos are relly depicting the plague. Well done!
Bo Jack Russo | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Cutest,Great article,great pictures, but…… How could you not inclued Bubonic plague? it almost singlehandidly wiped out Europe,and what about Ebola? It may not be as well known as some of these,(I’m not sure,maybe not as many either) but a horrible disease,this was still a great piece.I sure am glad they got avionic flu in check before it was everywhere.
jhenz | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
the pictures are so scary! but very effective. thanks for the info sis.
more power!
OhSugar | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Great article,great pictures. I could hardly look at some of them, but they tell the truth and that is what matter. Thank goodness for mordern day medicines. They found a cure for these, so we can hope that one day cancer will disappear also.
Ruby Hawk | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Thank goodness, these diseases can be treated effectivly now. There is hope that others will someday have a cure.
Rohan Agrawal | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Well amazing article, but, you have missed a major plague. The bubonic plague took place during the medieval tiimes.
valli | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
It is very sad to know that millions of people died due to these worst diseases.
Johnny Yuma | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
I noticed that people keep correcting you–your grammar, your composition, your list they say isn’t complete. What do they expect perfection? It is a great article even if you didn’t list every plague, and I suspect that not any of the ones doing the complaining has ever written a perfect piece. Personally I like it, and I noticed too that some others did.
Johnny Yuma
Likha | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
I believe that every disease is a dis-ease, something we have attracted to ourselves because of an unhealthy heart and mind. To heal it completely is to trace its roots in one’s heart and mind. Good idea for an article. Our ailing world needs to be reminded over and over.
AC Hamilton III | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Really excellent article Princess. You are really growing in your writing everytime. I can see your diligent effort in every piece. It’s all about the learning, and working toward perfection, not being ready-made perfect as some would try to imply. You are doing great. Keep it up!
AC
JK Kristie | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Informative article Princess. The small pox image looks disturbing.
Sharazad | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Cutestprincess, you did a good job with this. Diseases are so important and fascinating to study- from a distance.
Westbrook | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
I know this may sound cruel and many may disagree with me, but plagues, famines, wars and such may be nature’s way of thinning the population of humans, similar to harsh winters and diseases that prune out (so to speak) certain animals and plants. The resources of the earth could not support all the people that could be born over hundreds of years if people only died of old age and random accidents.
JOSELITO B BISENIO | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
it’s not nature’s way..it’s actually God’s way of warning us to come closer to him..admit it or not, sometimes, we are neglecting Him..
CHAN LEE PENG | Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
Those diseases are indeed very scary!
Melody Arcamo Lagrimas | Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
These are indeed tragic outbreaks.
denus | Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
ergghh that small pox picture gives me the creeps!
Joshua Miguel | Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
I learned a lot from this post. tnx.
nutuba | Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
Wow what an eye opening article. You’re such an enjoyable writer, even on tragic topics such as this. CutestPrincess, nicely done!
rajeev bhargava | Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
Wow. This is such a well written, beautifully composed, informative and shocking article, enhanced with the photographs of victims, warning all of us of the deadly diseases that exist on our planet. Well done cute princess. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and will refer to it time and time again.
Muffinman | Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
Wow, I didn’t know AIDS can make you look like that! Is she dead??
Fornis | Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
The first one just scared me..
Kevin | Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
Little confused as to why AIDs is number one. While its a horrible disease it pales in comparison to the number of people killed by malaria every year.
James DeVere | Feb 26, 2009 | Reply
Everyone I know has cancer – figure that! Nice write. j
pauljaramillo | Feb 26, 2009 | Reply
Has anyone here heard that there are only two causes of disease?
According to Dr. Hulda Clark there are only two causes of disease. #1 Parasites we ingest through our food or water and chemicals we breath and are taken into our organs. Eliminate those and the body will heal itself. I invite folks here to read Dr. Hulda Clark’s book “The Cure for all Diseases.” She has scientifically proven how to cure any disease and it revolutionary. Bacteria and pathogens cannot live in a field of electricity. A simple 9 volt battery can cure all disease! Think about that! Dare you to find out about it yourself!
Betty Carew | Feb 26, 2009 | Reply
Cutest princess this is one excellent article. Very well written and very well presented.
Unofre Pili | Feb 27, 2009 | Reply
That’s pretty informative kabayan. Thanks for sharing it, and congrats…
T B Forshaw | Feb 27, 2009 | Reply
Informative, but poignant too. It’s such a pity that some of the less fortunate amongst us are forced to suffer so much. Truly makes you realise how lucky you are to be alive.
Carolyn Ann Aish | Feb 27, 2009 | Reply
Brilliantly written article, good information. Scary pictures about hideous diseases-illnesses. Well done.
nobert soloria bermosa | Feb 27, 2009 | Reply
horrible
techsavvy999 | Feb 27, 2009 | Reply
Your article is very excellent…Great !
These are very dangerous diseases.
PsychoButterfly | Feb 28, 2009 | Reply
Very informative and scary too
Thanks for sharing! Keep up the good work!
Sakuragi | Feb 28, 2009 | Reply
Great research! disturbing pictures…………
THEMADTYPER | Feb 28, 2009 | Reply
THIS WAS A GREAT ARTICLE YOUR JOURNALISM SKILL ARE A+ IN MY BOOK KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Jo Oliver | Feb 28, 2009 | Reply
Great job. Very scary to think about any of these diseases.
mou920 | Mar 1, 2009 | Reply
my goodness i’m really so shocked by this, you have done really well to display this to bring it to attention!
C Jordan | Mar 2, 2009 | Reply
Interestingly enough, at the end of Worl War 1, more people died of Spanish flu than in the war.
Denise Kawaii | Mar 2, 2009 | Reply
Wow. These are a lot of illnesses I hope to never get.
Karianne | Mar 3, 2009 | Reply
Dude, Ebola is way worse than these.
Abdella | Mar 3, 2009 | Reply
Wow, Very interesting, Great pictures!
Calaminh | Mar 4, 2009 | Reply
It’s true, Ebola is way worse. Bleeding from every orifice from your body, and death is certain… ugh that scares me…
BUT
This is interesting and fun to read.
Edward J Rodrigues | Mar 4, 2009 | Reply
i didnt know Malaria was so dangerous…
fishfry aka Elizabeth Figueroa | Mar 4, 2009 | Reply
These plagues are horrible, but they wont stop, as long as people keep coming from different countries. These disease/virus are slowly becoming a memory of the past; but new ones are becoming a reality. Such as AIDS, even thou it is about 25 years old.
hate fakes | Mar 4, 2009 | Reply
Please research. I stopped reading your article after #2, because malaria is common to most tropical and subtropical regions of the world except where it has been eradicated. It did not originate in Africa. Its origins were widespread and now it is only common in the developing world, most notably in Sub-Saharan Africa, where mosquito control and treatment are hardest to come by.
The symptoms are also dependent on which species one has been infected with. Some are rarely lethal even if left untreated.
Malaria has been affecting humans since prehistoric times. I don’t know where your date of 1600 C.E. comes from, but it’s silly. And, infectious as it may be, it is hardly fitting as a “plague” since it has always been prevalent in the tropics and wet subtropics.
EJ2515 | Mar 5, 2009 | Reply
This is a great depiction describing how terrible these diseases really were. The pictures were phenominal, and mind boggling, Great research and great job preseting them.
Amsky | Mar 6, 2009 | Reply
Recorded history tells Malaria begun at around 2700 B.C.in China.
The term Malaria originates from Medieval Italian as Mala-Aria
means Bad-Air. ”Ninety percent of Malaria-related deaths occur in Sub Saharan Africa” This what princes is trying to emphasize.
Very nice Princess! Keep giving us something to read. I like your effort and willingness to entertain us by writing general info.
I would rather spend money to read your articles than reading a boring facts…
David Irvine | Mar 6, 2009 | Reply
great read thanks.
A. Morisson | Mar 6, 2009 | Reply
The coming Zombie pandemic is going to make these 6 looks like childsplay.
Check out my zombie research blog:
http://www.zombieresearch.wordpress.com
Hope you like it, and keep up the good work!
AM
SolarGoddess | Mar 6, 2009 | Reply
THE INFORMATION ON AIDS IS TOTALLY INCORRECT !!!
AIDS was NOT first recognized in 1981. A doctor in Michigan treated a Canadian flight attendant who was thought to have been patient zero in 1975.
AIDS did NOT originate in Africa. AIDS was developed right here in the United States. Homosexual men in Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco were recruited to participate in (supposed) Hepatitis studies and were instead injected with the AIDS virus which is why it spread through the homosexual community first.
AIDS has led to a lot more deaths than just 2.1 million. Over 1 million die annually in Africa alone. But that has decreased since the World Health Organization has recalled the 8 doctors who were convicted of deliberately injecting African children with the virus. Children as young as 5 years of age.
And you forgot the most important information about AIDS in America, anyway. By the late 1980\’s, hundreds of thousands of gay men were dying everyday and there was no help from the American government. Millions died before the virus began showing up in heterosexual men and women…and it wasn\’t until then that our government actually started programs and studies.
It took 10 years just for them to find out what AIDS was. That does not sound like some natural green monkey virus from Africa to me.
It sounds like it was a recombinant virus, meaning that three or four deadly strains of different virii were broken down and recombined together to form a deadly human disease.
And it was done by man, not nature.
SolarGoddess | Mar 6, 2009 | Reply
I think it is very nice of everyone who encourage Princess but do her a favor and encourage her toward more research before she writes an article like this.
I see her as simply capitalizing on the deaths and suffering of others by way of those atrocious pictures of disease and dying because they are coupled with inaccurate information.
That seems rather a ghoulish thing for a princess to do in my opinion.
CutestPrincess | Mar 6, 2009 | Reply
SolarGoddess,
June 5, 1981: First recognized cases of AIDS
here’s the source –>
http://10yearsago.typepad.com/10_years_ago/2008/06/june-5-first-re.html
Where did AIDS originate?
Guy had sex with a monkey somewhere in africa,
here’s the link –>
http://www.ukcoalition.org/AIDS-Virus/9895.htm
The world was told by a team of American, British and French scientists that HIV-1, the principal Aids virus, originated in a group of African chimpanzees.
here’s the link –>
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5391/is_199904/ai_n21437293
Who wants to read an article that is like a book? anyway, thanks for the view and comments… take care always!
gaby7 | Mar 7, 2009 | Reply
These are really horrible plagues, HIV in particular is killing so many in Africa-we pray the scientists find a ure. This has been a great post!
microbiologist | Mar 7, 2009 | Reply
Malaria kills more people then aids, in fact AIDS itself never kills anyone, its the subsequent secondary infections which do it. Malaria should be #1 by far.
LovingTruth! | Mar 8, 2009 | Reply
I am sorry to see that here again is the usual incorrect, and ad nauseam repeated mainstream information.
The reality of these diseases is:
AIDS is a manmade disease.
Why else would it in the US specifically target homosexuals, and are its African vicitms men, women and children?
As for malaria, in 1919 dr. H.R. Campbell )(1865-1931) got nominated for the Nobel Prrize by the state of Texas for his simple and perfect solution of the malaria problem. Campbell had built wooden bell towers on low poles, and the bats who immediately started to ive in them, ate all the malaria spreading mosquitos in sight.
Problem solved!
The project was financed by the guano, the very fertile bat dung, easily harvested right underneath these bat apartments!
Bill Gates’ father, who for 25 years has been involved with the (forced) sterilisations an abortions promoting organisation of Planned Parenthood, now sits on the board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which today is funding GAVI’s vaccination programs in the Third World, as well as massive malaria vaccinations… even by way of infected mosquitos!!!
Smallpox is not at all a human-to-human contagious disease, but is being transmitted by the bed bug Cimex lectuarius. Typically epidemics take place in regions with poor hygiene and nutritional deficiencies.
Vitamin C will modulate its virulence.
The smallpox vaccine is based on vaccinia, the hybrid virus which came into being within smallpox victims who had been vaccinated with cow pox. One could say an early form of genetic manipulation!
Variolae vaccinae )cowpox) + Variola major/minor/vera (smallpox) = Vaccinia.
These are three completely different biological entities…
The Spanish flu was neither Spanish nor the flu, but the result of a crude typhus vaccine. Rockefeller had given this vaccine to the German Kaiser 6 months before haivng it injected into the American troops being transported to Spain.
In 1917 the American Surgeon General called the resulting illness specifically ‘typhus’ .
In recent years victims of this ‘flu’ have been dug up from the permafrost. Jeffrey Taubenberger (American Army Institute of Pathology) has been working diligently to put the ‘Spanish’ flu genetic sequence together again… ‘to help humanity’.
Today at least 250 million doses of H5N1 birdflu vaccine are waiting to be injected into innocent American recipients . THESE VACCINES HAVE BEEN CONCOCTED BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF AN EPIDEMIC.
Where does the knowledge come from which flu types to use?
Baxter laboratories brought nasal flu vaccines on the market containing H5N1.
If anyone wants to launch a pandemic, this is the way to go!
Need I go on?
Angie | Mar 8, 2009 | Reply
Unbelievable!
Bullwinkle Muse | Mar 8, 2009 | Reply
It’s odd how the list, and the order, is so different from one article to the next on tne web.
dean | Mar 9, 2009 | Reply
really really great that we have small pox only in labs
more diseases should be controlled
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kamlesh786 | Mar 9, 2009 | Reply
nice info on killer disease
lyricaldragon | Mar 11, 2009 | Reply
Interesting
jnapretired | Mar 12, 2009 | Reply
This article seems to have generated a lot of feed back and if that is what the author was after, then they certainly succeeded. But I’m not sure after reading the article what ranking system was employed in assigning this six catastrophic events to afflict mankind. My research suggests that as deplorable as AIDS is, there see if this is more alarming. There is a world war ongoing and it has been named The Great War, because at of yet it is the only global encompassing conflict. Then, suddenly healthy individuals start dropping dead. Not the elderly nor the sickly, until over 30-million or so have died. No known cause is ever found and it ends as suddenly as it began. That is the Spanish Flu, which started around 1916 I believe. It was called the Spanish Flu, because it had concurrent origins in other places, perhaps France as one writer prepensed. It was called Spanish Flu, because it was there that this horrible epidemic, was given a face, a name. Which do you think is worst, Aids which effects people after a certain course of action is followed or a disease which to this day no one knows how it began or how it ended, we just know that there were so many dead that the burial method employed was to pile the dead up and burn them. Members of families had to bury each other who remained. To me, that was worst.
Fornis | Mar 12, 2009 | Reply
@jnapretired,
You are right.. I never knew this incident before.
Miss Heda | Mar 12, 2009 | Reply
wow that photo scared me… so sad
ur wrote a really informal peice
Nosa | Mar 13, 2009 | Reply
Highly researched article with som rather greusome graphics-Thanks for puting this up-its awesome!
Ozarkgirl | Mar 13, 2009 | Reply
Very strong article with great visual props (your pictures). Thanks for the article..
alcarzer | Mar 13, 2009 | Reply
you forgot to mention the most prolific disease known to mankind!!
religeon!!
its killed more innocents than all disease,s combined in the last millennia!
Fornis | Mar 15, 2009 | Reply
@alcarzer,
You perhaps didn’t know that without religion, many more would have died than those died because of it.
Sandra Tapia | Mar 16, 2009 | Reply
So passionate and controversial. You got a lot of people going!
MMV Abad | Mar 16, 2009 | Reply
Glad to be here. Congratulations on this CP! Terrific article
Athlyn Green | Mar 17, 2009 | Reply
What fascinating and valuable information. I Buzzed and Stumbled this. The pictures were so incredible poignant.
Stickinthemud | Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
Hi, CP, how are you?
This is a good article, I like it thanks
Sheila Jenkins | Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
Well done. Some very startling images. I don’t agree with the poster who said we attract such things. I just can’t see millions of people doing this all at once at the same time.
Steve West | Mar 23, 2009 | Reply
Very difficult to read and look at the photographs. I’m well aware of the terrible plight of millions of people around the world that suffer from these plagues. Perhaps the worst plague of all is hunger and starvation.
Acai Berry | Mar 24, 2009 | Reply
Very horrible pictures but fact of life.
J.Graham | Mar 26, 2009 | Reply
Kind of scary, i mean they kill so many. I am just waiting for the new plague, it will be bad for sure.
BenChloe | Mar 26, 2009 | Reply
brilliant, well researched! good luck in the future
Jose Monaca | Mar 26, 2009 | Reply
That’s really scary, but it’s true, millions of people die every year for these plagues.
Armywriter | Mar 26, 2009 | Reply
Aids is bad in Africa for sure. TB is too.
Worst plague of all time though…
Stupidity.
Jordan Page | Mar 27, 2009 | Reply
jnapretired, your comment referring to AIDS as a disease obtained after engaging “in a certain course of action” is extremely offensive, not to mention ignorant. There are scads of people that have died of AIDS or are dying of it as we speak that DID NOT acquire the disease after “a certain action was followed.” I suppose when someone you love is given AIDS by a hospital making a blood transfusion, you’ll feel the same way? And hey CP? Your article is one of the best I”ve read to date on TRiond; you did a fabulous job with your material; unfortunately, there is a LOT of conflicting info out there, which is where some of these people derive thier comments, but overall you’ve done a great job! Keep it up!
Mervin | Mar 27, 2009 | Reply
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LOVELY HONEY | Mar 27, 2009 | Reply
just marvellous
small pox people never survived then
I did.
malaria took me away twice or three times but the mosquitoes left me
thank god i am still safe and alive still just to read ur article
lh
dautsy | Mar 27, 2009 | Reply
All good information, I have to agree with some others Bubonic Plaque should have been mentioned and also Eboli. Those two are fast spreading killers if they get lose.
Aleksandar Radojicic | Mar 28, 2009 | Reply
This is a great article.You did well putting AIDS in first place.
romnick | Mar 28, 2009 | Reply
excellent post!
antonio2godoy | Mar 28, 2009 | Reply
Wow that was a great presentation.
Kevoow | Mar 28, 2009 | Reply
Great article.
Jeffrey B. Merrow | Mar 28, 2009 | Reply
scary good article good pics i see why its first on the list of hot ones
imaginearea | Mar 29, 2009 | Reply
OMG, this article is really powerful and informative.
DA Cournean | Mar 30, 2009 | Reply
Very very sad
amilia snow | Mar 30, 2009 | Reply
the photos are very vivid…you could make it better by providing detailed info on the cause & effect of the diseases.
thx~
Juancav | Mar 30, 2009 | Reply
Really killer plagues,very informative.
JOSELITO B BISENIO | Mar 30, 2009 | Reply
tagal na nito cutestprincess ah…
NJBadam | Mar 31, 2009 | Reply
Thx, been researching diseases for awhile this realy helped
blessed71588 | Apr 1, 2009 | Reply
wow great job
Shari86 | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Well done, this article has generated a surprising amount of controversy. The article itself, however, was quite well written and the graphic pictures certainly hammer home the reality of these diseases.
Dianneapril | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Loved the graphicpictures. They set the stage for the article itself. Very nice!
Nicko | Apr 7, 2009 | Reply
Interesting ifno
Austin | Apr 9, 2009 | Reply
Shouldn’t Christianity be on here?
mannyrich | Apr 9, 2009 | Reply
great research.. you are an outstanding writer
Stickinthemud | Apr 13, 2009 | Reply
Looks like everyone’s got something different to say about this article, Julie!! Oh well. Everyone’s allowed to comment I guess, but they could have done it privately, instead of debasing you here in public. You know, you can always get rid of the comments that are nasty if you don’t want them!! Anyway, good job, keep your head up and better luck next time, eh? See you around.
G. Nichols | Apr 14, 2009 | Reply
That’s some sick stuff, I didn’t realize it was so common in those regions of various countries.
Judy T Lloyd | Apr 14, 2009 | Reply
All of these plagues certainly wiped out a lot of people. I believe too that there will be more.
Fresh Writing | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
These are HORRIBLE…disgusting illnesses, really…
Horrifying to view-thank you though for extending such awareness.
-Fresh Writing
Anne McNew | Apr 16, 2009 | Reply
Hey CP, that was another informative article!!!
great work girl.
Hans Müller | Apr 19, 2009 | Reply
The worst is still to come. Hepatitis infected people are rising. 500 million are carries of one of the B, C, D, G virus, most still do not know it but, the majority will die soon. It takes about 4 months for the antibodies to appear in the blood after a person is contaminated, and about 20 years for the disease to turn into a liver cancer or cirrhosis. Health authorities and politicians are not divulgating the prevention information available for the population to avoid these risks. Manicure, pedicure, tattoo ink, piercing, razors, tooth brushes, needles and instruments when shared, and not right sterilized in an autoclave, they are infecting new victims. Strictly personal or disposable instruments are not much in use, and people get contaminated by the thousands. The solution, people ought only to use their own personal, disposable or right sterilized (only autoclaves do it) tools. For mani/pedicure I developed a small and cheap clipper, for a complete nail and finger care treatment. It must be used only as an individual tool to finish with these contamination risks for users and whole communities. I need a manufacturer, who is willing to help to save millions of lives and people from getting other nail infections?
teresa sims | Apr 20, 2009 | Reply
omg God Help us all so heartfelt
rayclan | Apr 22, 2009 | Reply
good job! thats a big effort!
hfj | Apr 22, 2009 | Reply
Very well written. Great pictures too.
ghostgoul | Apr 23, 2009 | Reply
Creepy stuff….
informative and thorough.
skylite | Apr 24, 2009 | Reply
So much illness all over the world, so sad. Great write up !
JLEck | Apr 25, 2009 | Reply
I wonder what we as humans will create for ourselves…
Parish Loveless | Apr 26, 2009 | Reply
That is horrific. I do not believe that I have seen much of anything more sorrowful and despairing then those photos attached above. Thank you for helping me become aware!
Caroswen | Apr 26, 2009 | Reply
this is very interesting, i love the pictures, they really show how terrible these plagues can be!
eriq411 | Apr 29, 2009 | Reply
no avian flu or swine flue?
gailisa12 | Apr 29, 2009 | Reply
this is a very touchy subjects that you wrote about, thanks girl keep up the good work.
JazzyCupcake | May 1, 2009 | Reply
Very informative, kind of depressing once considered, though.
Overall, well done.
Anne Lyken Garner | May 1, 2009 | Reply
Please, people, I’m sure no one actually believes that AIDS started with a ‘guy having sex with a monkey.’ You *do* know that the link listed above leads to a page where people who know nothing about the illness are having a casual, tongue-in-cheek conversation. These are not doctors putting forth a theory. It’s people like you and I just sitting around with nothing to do with the computer in front of them, having a laugh.
Links like those should not be quoted as source.
jbenton187 | May 4, 2009 | Reply
well organized
A.L.Hunter | May 5, 2009 | Reply
Great article, very imformative. Thanks!
cruiser | May 5, 2009 | Reply
im scared now…
Arvind2221994 | May 6, 2009 | Reply
absolutely remarkable…and shocking..those pics are going to haunt me forever now!!but atleast i have had a good lesson to learn!hats off to the writer!
troto23 | May 6, 2009 | Reply
Thank goodness, these diseases can be treated effectivly now. There is hope that others will someday have a cure. omg so hard is this to believe
blakecheryt | May 6, 2009 | Reply
your work is good but also very sad but excellent work
Hillbilly Herman | May 7, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for sharing
smartypantz | May 8, 2009 | Reply
You have the dates for Napoleon’s army wrong…research that and change the dates
J3llyb3an | May 9, 2009 | Reply
i definitely learned a lot from this right here
freaky4jay | May 10, 2009 | Reply
this is really wonderful
TOMMYLEE | May 10, 2009 | Reply
that was sick
PETAH | May 10, 2009 | Reply
woah, pretty freaky pictures! makes me feel bad for those people with aids and other stuff. i almost threw up looking at this. poor people
clafleur | May 12, 2009 | Reply
the pictures a really graphic. really brings out the reality of what your article is tring to say.
Diabay | May 17, 2009 | Reply
Wow outstanding article! Recently I learned in depth about all of these diseases. It will be so wonderful one day when all of us can live in peace without all this suffering! As much as scientist try and cure these diseases it seems as if someone in some place is always going to be sick. It’s a sad thing but AIDS can be prevented…I think people will have to be more cautions because personally I think that AIDS can be cured and stopped.
Anyways 5 stars on this article most def!
Jake Mitchell | May 20, 2009 | Reply
Disturbing pictures but very interesting to read. Hope the swine flu doesn’t make that list!
shad0wr1ter58 | May 21, 2009 | Reply
Sorry princess this is a striking article with its pictures but solar goddess is right about your info. There are raging debates about the origin of aids but the most commonly accepted are the ones pointed out by solar. As i have two family members(maybe more) living with the disease, i’ve had cause to reasearch heavily. some guy, somewhere in africa had sex with a monkey is hardly acceptable proof no matter what your referenced sources. This is the online world. I could point you out over a hundred links that are wrong or flawed. Just because you read it somewhere doesn’t mean you have to believe it.
Mil Cat | May 23, 2009 | Reply
wow, i never knew aids was the worst! Great info though congratz
Tono Fonseca | May 26, 2009 | Reply
They may be plagues, but they aren’t the worst of the worst of the world’s diseases.
Thank God that anthrax isn’t person-to-person contagious.
anonamous | May 26, 2009 | Reply
wow i cant get views like that. Nice discribtions.
Southgate | May 26, 2009 | Reply
Quite informative and relevant to the modern times.Thank you
Denis Muwonge | May 27, 2009 | Reply
Very informative, but with 77% of the sub saharan women HIV positive, isnt Africa on the verge of exctinction? Please read the article by Muwonge Denis, on Triond entitled the sole remedy to HIV/AIDS. May be that is the only way to save the humanity cradle land and the world at large.
Lachlan | May 28, 2009 | Reply
I laugh at your excuses for sources. Most of those pages are just people saying what they think, and very incorrectly “guy had sex wiv a munkey sad but true, n he slept wiv some1…”. LOL.
C L Eckles | May 28, 2009 | Reply
The pictures definitely add to the article, but I agree with those who say the information is inaccurate and/or scant. I would like to see the author do more research, as well as include more general info and more accurate information about the AIDS virus (I suggest academic and medical journals).
Sarah Sullins | May 29, 2009 | Reply
Very well researched article, and the pictures caught my attention very well. Wow.
rizzei | May 30, 2009 | Reply
owh. these diseases are really serious. very informative. The images clearly shows the effects of the illness.. i really didn’t look at the small pox image. i just scrolled it down coz i feel something strange when i just have seen a little part of the pic. nice research. excellent indeed! God bless.:)
trose7 | May 31, 2009 | Reply
Nice article, I liked it.
Sincerley Kat | Jun 1, 2009 | Reply
Oh my! That is VERY interesting. Nice to know some of these plagues have ended. Scary and gross, buy interesting,
Thanks!!
Cynthia Bartlett | Jun 3, 2009 | Reply
Interesting and informative article.
One Love | Jun 4, 2009 | Reply
Wow, this is a very interesting article, very informative. The pics creeped me out a little.
sedna16 | Jun 5, 2009 | Reply
I hope that this current international disease will not be like those 6. vaporizers
james | Jun 8, 2009 | Reply
freaky stuff
MissSkymin | Jun 10, 2009 | Reply
Great job! Makes me glad I’ve never caught anything worse than a cold. As for that first photo…..ugh.
ecrivan | Jun 11, 2009 | Reply
Informative but do some more leg work…
How could Typhus have infected Napoleon’s soldiers from 1919 to 1923?The man died in exile at least 100 years earlier.
shannykins | Jun 13, 2009 | Reply
“Most of Napoleon’s soldiers in Russia were killed by Typhus between 1919 and 1923; 3 million people have killed.”
Huh? Napoleon’s soldiers certainly lived to a good old age, didn’t they! All of the well into their hundreds! And “3 million people have killed”? What have they killed? You need to start proof reading!
jbenton187 | Jun 13, 2009 | Reply
very graphic pictures but they really show the diseases for what they are, very serious matters. great article
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Kiddy | Jun 13, 2009 | Reply
Informative. Thanks for sharing.
ysmar135 | Jun 15, 2009 | Reply
omg this realy shocked me,i mean those are deseases i never want to get and i hope tht ppl who do have it get cured cuz it looks verry severe
Earl Schmegley | Jun 15, 2009 | Reply
Creepy photos – good article. I appreciate the range and diversity of the subjects you choose to tackle. Keep up the good work.
Francy | Jun 16, 2009 | Reply
scary image you got there but great article overall.
correction | Jun 19, 2009 | Reply
to #29 by Kevin, Feb 25, 2009
AIDS is number 1 because we can cure malaira with a few doses of Quinine yet Aids can only be delayed
Athlyn Green | Jun 21, 2009 | Reply
Good informative article that I will share with others. I love the pictures you used!
Tanner Koza | Jun 21, 2009 | Reply
scary intense
foreverroses | Jun 22, 2009 | Reply
Very informative and educational.
sereniko | Jun 22, 2009 | Reply
Very interesting article. I never even knew about Typhus. Ahhh these diseases remind me of a horror movie. I feel bad for these people in Africa not getting the proper medical attention. Their health is so poor, no wonder they’re so diseased.
tsunamieternal86 | Jun 22, 2009 | Reply
It’s so horrible to acknowledge but it’s the pure truth. Epedemics are real and they can get much worse
Charles5th | Jun 24, 2009 | Reply
The Plague is the worst
Anna Ski | Jun 25, 2009 | Reply
Very interesting article.
lokilindo | Jun 26, 2009 | Reply
wow all this sick ness in the world I think there should be more doctors and more help… great article
NessGray | Jun 30, 2009 | Reply
OUCH! Good article though!
NRX | Jun 30, 2009 | Reply
OMG, it looks so terrible..
Billy Bad guy | Jul 1, 2009 | Reply
Swine flu arose after an American farm hand had sex with a pig in North Carolina! Aids arose after a homesick CIA agent married a green monkey and was refused permission to bring his male friend back home to meet the rest of the guys.
Atikin | Jul 1, 2009 | Reply
Harrowing!
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Neolapria | Jul 6, 2009 | Reply
Very Informative
Stacey T Pollock | Jul 7, 2009 | Reply
Wow that is an eye opening article! Great research.
Emily Greenleaf | Jul 7, 2009 | Reply
Wow… this is really intense and the pictures are amazing but sickening at the same time. Thanks for sharing!
~Emily
ladybugblue | Jul 12, 2009 | Reply
Interesting article but sad as well. Thanks
Patricia Lee | Jul 12, 2009 | Reply
Very interesting article, well researched!
ppierre | Jul 12, 2009 | Reply
Freaky but well illustrated!
therussian876 | Jul 12, 2009 | Reply
nice article, I learned something new today
Raudius | Jul 13, 2009 | Reply
thats a hell of loads of comments
MonsterDany | Jul 13, 2009 | Reply
Loved the article and the pictures made it look so much more interesting.
oldster | Jul 13, 2009 | Reply
Gotta go with Westbrook on this one. Nature will out.
Although everything man seems to invent or invoke seems to multiply the possibilities of maximum deaths.
Religion doesn\’t seem to help find a cure, it does however seem to promote fighting in it\’s defence, to maximise casualties.
Great controversial topic though, promoted lots of for and against criticism and reaction.
I look forward to your next project.
The 5 worst politicians or religious beliefs.
All the Best
wilson960 | Jul 14, 2009 | Reply
Great article pictures are a bit freaky
Beth Suess | Jul 14, 2009 | Reply
Very good piece!
sweetievee | Jul 14, 2009 | Reply
gaffneygirl | Jul 15, 2009 | Reply
I am in awe of the magnitude of controversy that you have invoked in writing this piece. Nevertheless, I am inclined to agree with the objectors that feel a more in depth research approach should have been taken before attempting to present such a powerful piece.
breakingout | Jul 16, 2009 | Reply
in the past (when i was a small child,) several people in athourity, at least over me, told me retro viruses were man made through labrotory science….
was this ever true?
breakingout | Jul 16, 2009 | Reply
if true then where did aids come from again????
Kaligantsaros | Jul 17, 2009 | Reply
Utter drivel
ellev8r | Jul 17, 2009 | Reply
Excellent article, well put together. I think ‘breakingout” asks a very important question, just where did this disease, AIDS, come from? Its a nazi’s wet dream and it just so happens to appear out of nowhere? Yeah right.
ethioatl | Jul 17, 2009 | Reply
this is an excellent and informative article, thanks
LilZAMMY13 | Jul 17, 2009 | Reply
hmm good article =]
gaby7 | Jul 17, 2009 | Reply
Very scarry! I wish I could die of a less painful death!
Jasin | Jul 18, 2009 | Reply
Omg! those pictures were scary…
nice work putting this one togeather though.
patriotaki | Jul 18, 2009 | Reply
awesome article!!!but scary pics…=/
Neohobeo | Jul 18, 2009 | Reply
I like your post, good opinion, but sad.
Add me if you want
Melodie | Jul 19, 2009 | Reply
My husbands brother died from aids, and now for 6yrs , I have been up against Hep C. It’s hard to see so much pain But also good to know people are caring and working on cures.
bahar17 | Jul 19, 2009 | Reply
My god….
which images and how to help the world?
webseowriters | Jul 20, 2009 | Reply
very bad health report for our peace world
Redwitch05 | Jul 20, 2009 | Reply
This is a very good article. Thank you for the great read. (And wonderful pictures)
~Ria
van1254 | Jul 20, 2009 | Reply
good article, i love it…
djari13 | Jul 21, 2009 | Reply
I got all of these plagues i aint deadz… yet
LOVELY HONEY | Jul 21, 2009 | Reply
i cannot believe that over 350 guys have read this article and u forgot the biggest killer
love or
OR THE DENIAL OF IT
KILLS MANY
LOVE is the biggest killer
ur a wonderful person as a journalist aye one congrats
lh
jesse lennon | Jul 22, 2009 | Reply
hmm the pics and info were very put togetther! But what about the Black Plague didn’t that kill most of europe in the medieval times
fishfry aka Elizabeth Figueroa | Jul 22, 2009 | Reply
The descriptions were great, the photos brought home the point.
killerchu4 | Jul 23, 2009 | Reply
That is a great article keep up the good work.^_^
sschles | Jul 23, 2009 | Reply
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Alex1 | Jul 26, 2009 | Reply
That’s awesome!!
Susan Keeping | Aug 23, 2009 | Reply
Well done, lets hope we aren’t on the road to a new one.
Tony | Aug 24, 2009 | Reply
Very informative article, and the pictures are just downright scary.
sanju | Oct 2, 2009 | Reply
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TruthIsOutThere | Oct 25, 2009 | Reply
You people should really research the origin of these diseases! Alternative 3!!
And stop talking about the swine flu!!