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December 22, 2005

The Next Global Epidemic—When?

The Spanish flu killed more people than any other infectious disease in history. “Each year,” one authority says, “brings us closer to the next pandemic.” Learn why we might expect such a global epidemic.

3 Could It Happen Again?

4 The Worst Plague in History

7 Influenza—What We Know Now

10 Pandemics—What the Future Holds

16 Bible Stories Told in Ice and Snow

18 Russian Blini—More Than Just Pancakes

19 Young People Ask . . . What Should I Know About Steroids?

26 Bass Rock—Where Gannets Gather

28 Watching the World

30 From Our Readers

31 Index to Volume 86 of Awake!

32 It Moved a Young Man to Examine His Life

Twice Sentenced to 25 Years of Slave Labor 12

Read about the faith of one who suffered for refusing to fight the Soviets during World War II and was later nearly worked to death by them in a slave-labor camp.

Amazing Discoveries at Earth’s Equator 22

In 1936 a monument was constructed on what was determined by French scientists to be the equator. But learn how ancient native inhabitants had more accurately determined the true equator.

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Cover: Emergency hospital during Spanish-flu epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, U.S.A.

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Cover: National Museum of Health & Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, NCP 1603