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HI According to the Bibie,

2 God unleashed ten plagues ® on Egypt when the *0 pharaoh refused to let 5T¹ Moses lead the Jewish people out of captivity.

fl 01: Nile turned to blood (D

CO 02: Plague of frogs

03: Plague of gnats

pj 04: Plague of flies

|Q 05: Death of livestock

iq 06: Plague of boils

** 07: Hail

08: Plague of locusts

09: Darkness

10: Death of all firstborn sons

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Tell me morę: pandemics

■    A pandemie is a disease that spreads around the world or throughout an entire country.

■    A smallpox pandemie swept through the Roman Empire in the 100s ce.

■    The deadliest pandemie in history was the outbreak of Spanish fiu (1918-1919), which killed morę than 50 million people worldwide.

■    Spanish fiu was caused by a strain of the influenza A (H1N1) virus, similar to the one responsible for the 2009 swine fiu pandemie.

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Workers building London’s

underground subway dug | into plague pits -

| communal graves for victims of the Great Plague of 1665. Luckily, they didn’t

develop any spots

Five pioneers in the fight against disease

Edward Jenner

(1749-1823) Introduced vaccination to protect against smailpox.

Louis Pasteur

(1822-1895) Developed the first vaccines and proved that most infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms.

Joseph Lister

(1827-1912) Championed the use of antiseptics during surgery.

Robert Koch

(1843-1910) His research into bacteria led to !ifesaving changes in public health and sanitation.

Alexander Fleming

(1881-1955) Discovered penicillin, the source of the first antibiotic drug.

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