Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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The 1918 flu killed more people than the First World War

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Louis Pasteur first used his rabies vaccine on a human

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Robert Koch named the germ behind tuberculosis

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Smallpox is the only human disease ever eradicated

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The CDC reported the first cases of what became AIDS

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A WHO commission certified smallpox eradicated

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U.S. Surgeon General links smoking to cancer

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Antibiotics drive the evolution of resistance

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