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10.13.08

Pandemic! 10 of the Deadliest Diseases

The Black Plague, Third Pandemic and Spanish Flu wiped out hundreds of millions; they have nothing on today's worst diseases

By PopSci Staff Posted 07.02.2008 at 2:13 pm 7 Comments

What makes a disease deadly in the twenty-first century? Medicine has never been more advanced; our understanding of spread and infection, never more sophisticated. And yet, we may be poised for the largest and most devastating pandemic the human race has ever encountered.

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