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...
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Thalidomide Drug Tragedy – October 1, 1957
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 Before it was withdrawn three years later thousands of babies had been born with severe physical deformities.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...
World-wide Flu Pandemic – 1918–1919
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...
London Black Death Plague – England – 1665 AD
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...
Black Death Plague – Constantinople – Byzantine Empire – 542 AD
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...
Preventing Bioterrorism
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...