Virus outbreaks and breakthroughs
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The 'Spanish' flu—Witness History
In 1918 an extremely deadly form of influenza killed millions around the world
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The Ebola virus—Witness History
The first documented outbreak of the deadly disease occurred in the 1970s in Zaire
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The SARS epidemic—Witness History
How the world battled a deadly respiratory disease in 2003.
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Swine flu shuts down Mexico City—Witness History
A highly infectious virus appeared in Mexico in 2009 and rapidly spread round the world
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Marburg virus—Witness History
A deadly new disease infected laboratory workers in a small town in West Germany in 1967.
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The last smallpox outbreak—Witness History
Thousands of people died in the world's last major smallpox epidemic in India in 1974.
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The Berlin Patient—Witness History
Timothy Ray Brown was the first person in the world to be cured of HIV/AIDS.
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The early days of HIV/Aids—Witness History
The experience of a Ugandan-born woman diagnosed with HIV in the early days of the virus
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The 1957 flu that killed a million people—Witness History
In 1957 a new strain of flu emerged in East Asia and quickly spread around the world
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