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Smallpox in Somallia
It was the world´s last natural infection of smallpox,and it was reported in Somalia,down the African continent.
The smallpox was an infectious caused by viruses.
It is focused in small blood vessels of the skin,which starts to be all over covered by fluid filled blisters.
The last person who suffered from this viral disease and survived ,, was the Somali hospital cook,Ali Maow Maalin. -
The Skylab
America´s first space station,Skylab,is deliberatery allowed to burn up on atmospheric entry over the Indian Ocean. -
Bulimia Nervosa
In August of that year,the British psychiatrist Gerald Russel first describes and names the mental disorder of Bulimia Nervosa,after several cases of affected young girls. -
First cases of AIDS
The AIDS pandemic begins when the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports an unusual cluster of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles,CA. -
Miracle artificial heart
It was the first artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark,he lived 112 days until the heart stopped beating. -
NASA Space Shuttle Challenger
The Nasa Space Shuttle Challenger explodes on launch,killing all seven astronauts aboard.
Their bodies were located by the United States Navy divers on March,9. -
Tommie L. Andrews
Florida´s criminal Tommie Lee Andrews is the first person to be convicted as a result of DNA fingerprinting.The serial rapist sexually assaulted more than 10 women in the past few years. -
Hepatitis C
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is first identified.
Some symptoms are:Dark urine,loss of apetite,yellowish eyes...
It is a virus that can ve easily spread through having sex,sharing drugs and needles(being stuck by infected needles) and giving birth. -
Dolly the sheep
Dolly was a female domestic sheep and the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell,using the process of nuclear transfer.
She was born on the 5th July, 1996, and died from a progressive lung disease 5 months before her seventh birthday. -
The Moon
NASA announces that the Moon's northern pole contains millions of tons of water ice.
