A donation of seed grain from the United States to Iraq was wrongly consumed by Iraqis because of language difficulties, leading to widespread mercury poisoning. A large shipment of seed grain was sent from North America to Iraq in August of 1971. The vice president of Iraq at that time was Saddam Hussein. He came …
Thalidomide was launched by Celgene Corporation to help pregnant women. Before it was withdrawn three years later thousands of babies had been born with severe physical deformities. Thalidomide was launched in Germany on October 1, 1957. It was an effective hypnotic drug capable of inducing drowsiness and sleep so it was introduced as a sleeping …
The disease spread from places where there were high concentrations of soldiers. It spread all over the world and took the lives of thirty million people. In the last year of World War I, the world was hit with a flu pandemic, the H1N1 virus. It would prove be the deadliest disease in human history. …
The Asian Bubonic Plague, known as the Black Death, hits London. No one knows why the bubonic plague, or Black Death as it came to be known in England, broke out in eastern Siberia in the 1300s and spread westward. There was very little knowledge, at that time, of the ways by which diseases are …
Bubonic Plague from Asia arrived via Africa at Constantinople in 542 In 542, Roman Emperor Justinian was actively rebuilding the empire from its new headquarters in Constantinople, often referred to as the Byzantine Empire since there was so much Greek influence there. The old western part with its center in Rome had been taken over …
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The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) discusses with the U.S. Congress issues related to the adequacy of federal law relating to dangerous biological agents. It is the largest single life science society in the world with a membership of 42,000, and represents a broad spectrum of sub-disciplines, including medical microbiology, applied and environmental microbiology, virology, …