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1. Often described as the "greatest pandemic of them all", this category 5 influenza pandemic swept through a world already shattered by the Great War, killed millions, and then vanished.
2. Tens of millions of people in the 19th-21st centuries have died from outbreaks of this intestinal bacterial infection that comes from fecally contaminated drinking water and causes severe diarrhea.
3. The World Health Organization declared this outbreak of Influenza A virus, subtype H1N1, to be the first pandemic of the 21st century.
4. This tropical mosquito-borne infectious disease causes fever, vomiting, headaches, and possibly coma and death. The pathogen is neither a virus nor a bacterium, nor is it "bad air".
5. This viral, mosquito-borne disease, that can cause jaundice, once caused devastation in the Americas and West Africa.
6. A pandemic of this viral hemorrhagic fever broke out in the 2010s, mostly in West Africa but also globally, not by sneezing or coughing but through direct contact with bodily fluids.
7. Chest X-rays are used to diagnose this disease that forms nodules in the lungs and causes bloody mucus, chronic cough, and weight loss, as though consuming the body from within.
8. Also known as "camp fever" for spreading in close quarters, a pandemic of this bacterial disease was spread by rat fleas and body lice during and after the Crusades, and it also killed millions of prisoners in Nazi and Soviet concentration camps.
9. The good news is that this viral contagious disease, causing fluid-filled blisters, is considered completely eradicated thanks to a vaccine developed by Edward Jenner.
10. This ancient, chronic, bacterial disease that caused lesions, numbness, and disfigurement was the scourge of the world thousands of years ago and led to the ostracism of countless people to "colonies".
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