The Worst Epidemics Throughout History

Vaccination Distribution

The Salk vaccine was created in 1954 by a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. The polio cases in the US steadily declined as the vaccine became more and more available to the general public. In 1979, it is believed that the last polio case in the US was diagnosed. It is not eradicated worldwide yet, so the pandemic lives on in other countries for the time being. 

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The More You Know

  • More than 800 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea.
  • The first breakfast cereal had to be soaked overnight before it could be eaten.
  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • If you sneeze while driving at 60 mph, your eyes are closed for around 50 feet.
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