Disease Viruses Humans have known and feared diseases caused by virusesfor thousands of years. Among the diseases that virusescause (table 33.1) are influenza, smallpox, infectious hepati-tis, yellow fever, polio, rabies, and AIDS, as well as manyother diseases not as well known.isease Viruses Humans have known and feared diseases caused by virusesfor thousands of years. Among the diseases that virusescause (table 33.1) are influenza, smallpox, infectious hepati-tis, yellow fever, polio, rabies, and AIDS, as well as manyother diseases not as well known.
Turkey is the world's 37th-largest country in terms of area. The country is encircled by seas on three sides: the Aegean Sea to the west, the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south. Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara in the northwest.n 1927, when the first official census was recorded in the Republic of Turkey, the population was 13.6 million. The largest city in Turkey, Istanbul, is also the largest city in Europe in population, and the third-largest city in Europe in terms of size.
Batumi, Poti, and Sokhumi are the country's primary Black Sea ports. Turkey. The main area of Turkey, known as Anatolia, is in Asia while Turkish Thrace, representing about 3% of the nation's total area, is in Europe. At nearly 301,000 square miles (780,000 sq km), Turkey is a little larger than Texas. Its capital is Ankara, and Istanbul is the largest city.