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Epidemics1________history2_________recent press reports 3________(draw) parallels between bird flu and a killer epidemic in the past, Jim smith looks through the history of epidemics for clues about what the future might hold.

4______bird flu first appeared in 1997, it has  5______(take) more than a hundred lives. Many people fear it could be the next global epidemic, especially as scientists who studied tissue  from the bodies of the 1918 Spanish flu proved that bird flu is a modern 6______（adapt） of the same virus.

Bacteria and viruses have been 7_______since the beginning of life on earth and many of today’s diseases have existed as long as humans have. It is important to look 8______the spread of diseases throughout history to discover the causes and effects of 9._____(epidemic), and 10_____(hope),  foresee and prevent them in the future.