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infectious epidemics

SOURCE: National Geographic
10-25-14

This is how badly infectious epidemics have devastated humans in history (graphic)

by National Geographic Staff

The worst become pandemics, sweeping across continents and killing as many as tens of millions of people.

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infectious epidemics

This is how badly infectious epidemics have devastated humans in history (graphic)

by National Geographic Staff