AP World History: Modern / Unit 9: Globalization (c. 1900–present)
9.2 Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Disease
Notes
Medicine improved: vaccines (smallpox eradicated in 1980), antibiotics (penicillin). But diseases remain: the 1918 flu, HIV/AIDS, malaria, COVID-19, and diseases tied to poverty.
Practice
Smallpox was declared eradicated in:
WHO campaign.
Penicillin is an:
Fleming, 1928.
The 1918 influenza pandemic spread quickly partly because of:
Global war.
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