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Medical History Timeline Match-Up

Match the lettered years and time intervals below to the numbered list of events in medical history.

  1. 1900-1909
  2. 1909
  3. 1918-1919
  4. 1922
  5. 1928-1945
  6. 1950
  7. 1952
  8. 1954
  9. 1980
  10. 1981

  1. Leukemia drugs developed
  2. AIDS is officially recognized
  3. Insulin is isolated
  4. Salk produces polio vaccine
  5. Fleming discovers penicillin
  6. Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
  7. Cure for syphilis is found
  8. Flu pandemic strikes
  9. First successful kidney transplant is performed
  10. WHO declares smallpox is eradicated

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