The Worst Epidemics Throughout History

Still Going On

Though it's become less documented in recent years, the fight against Ebola is still going on. There is no known cure or vaccine for the disease, but scientists recently learned that the disease likely originated in bats. Symptoms for Ebola start with a light fever, headache, muscle pain, and chills but can progress to internal bleeding and coughing up blood or vomit.

The More You Know

A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.
The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.
A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.