{"id":20,"date":"2006-06-18T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/20-health-facts-pandemics"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:38:12","slug":"health-facts-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/20-health-facts-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Facts: Pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pandemic\" alt=\"Pandemic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/pandemic.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Recently the word pandemic has been in the news. What is a pandemic? How many have there been in the world&#8217;s history? Let&#8217;s learn some hard facts about pandemics.<\/p>\n<p>* A pandemic is a global outbreak of an infectious disease. It can affect animals, birds and people.<\/p>\n<p>* Pandemics have been around since 430 B.C. The first known pandemic struck during the Peloponnian War.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n* In 1832, a cholera pandemic struck London, Europe and New York. By 1834, it had spread up the west coast of North America, leaving thousands of dead in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>* Several other pandemics have gripped the world, including the 541 bubonic plague and the 165 Antonine plague which is not thought to have been smallpox.<\/p>\n<p>* In 1918\/19, the Spanish Flu spread to the corners of the globe. It killed 25 million people within six months. The cause has never been determined.<\/p>\n<p>* HIV is a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>* The World Health Organization predicts that a pandemic is long overdue. It is thought that the Avian Flu will reach into the far corners of the globe. Will millions die, or will Tamiflu, a medication stop this strong flu virus in its tracks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the word pandemic has been in the news. What is a pandemic? How many have there been in the world&#8217;s history? Let&#8217;s learn some hard facts about pandemics. * A pandemic is a global outbreak of an infectious disease. It can affect animals, birds and people. * Pandemics have been around since 430 B.C. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}