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Black Death Causes and Symptoms

http://historymedren.about.com/od/theblackdeath/a/death_defined.htm

The Black Death

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/hmcl1005/plague/

The Black Death Bubonic Plague During the Elizabethan Era

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/bubonic-black-plague-elizabethan-era.htm

CDC: Yellow Fever

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/YellowFever/index.html

WHO: Yellow Fever

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs100/en/

MedlinePlus Yellow Fever

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001365.htm

Questions and Answers About Ebola

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola/qa.htm

Known Cases and Outbreaks of Ebola

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola/ebolatable.htm

WHO: Ebola

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/index.html

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

http://www.dhpe.org/infect/ebola.html

CDC: Malaria

http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/

WHO Malaria

http://www.who.int/topics/malaria/en/

Malaria

http://www.medicinenet.com/malaria/article.htm

What is AIDS?

http://www.aids.org/factSheets/101-what-is-aids.html

AIDS

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aids.html

CDC AIDS

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

CDC 1918 Influenza

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no01/05-0979.htm

Polio Hospital of Hickory, NC

http://www.nchealthandhealing.com