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The objective of this project is to study the effect of epidemics on our genealogies. Perhaps we can build up sub databases useful for human population studies. Hyperlink separate projects in the list so we can easily jump to them, and also add as a related project.
From Healthcare Business & Technology Insights
It’s hard to imagine — in this day of super antibiotics and advanced medicine — but there was a time in history when a single disease could cause the deaths of thousands of people virtually overnight. Here’s a list of diseases responsible for taking millions of lives all around the globe:
from Top 10 epidemics by death toll
NB Malaria is probably the number 1 epidemic in death toll with more than a 1 million people killed every year. Records however aren’t accurate