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1 day ago · Tuberculosis was one of the deadliest diseases in the 1900s, and killed more men than women. But with the spread of influenza disease, the cases of tuberculosis cases in men decreased.
2 days ago · List of epidemics and pandemics. Pandemics timeline death tolls. This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included.
6 days ago · Medicine in World War I is divided into several broad categories: common diseases of the battlefield and camps; injuries and prosthetic devices; shell-shock and stress; military nursing; and the Spanish influenza epidemic.
- Sarah Calhoun
- 2019
5 days ago · Pandemic, outbreak of infectious disease that occurs over a wide geographical area and that is of high prevalence, generally affecting a significant proportion of the world’s population over the course of several months. Learn about how pandemics arise and about pandemic preparedness and historical pandemics.
- Kara Rogers
- A pandemic is an outbreak of infectious disease that occurs over a wide geographical area and that is of high prevalence. A pandemic generally affe...
- Throughout history, there have been many deadly pandemics, but the Black Death and the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 rank among the most lethal. Th...
- Pandemics can be caused by several factors. For example, in some cases, a new strain or subtype of virus that first emerged in animals jumps to hum...
- Pandemics typically slow and come to an end on their own, though the process may be accelerated through effective preventive strategies, such as im...
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5 days ago · Unsurprisingly, emigrants often suffered from illness when confined to crowded areas where diseases such as measles, scarlet fever, smallpox and typhoid could spread rapidly. Children were especially vulnerable and all too often surgeons could not help them.
4 days ago · In 1932 the sulfonamide drugs and later the antibiotics, including penicillin, streptomycin, chlortetracycline, and chloramphenicol, afforded new opportunities of prevention and cure of bacterial diseases. After 1900 there were many advances in preventive medicine other than those related to infectious diseases.
4 days ago · It is major work of synthesis that develops in successive chapters histories of plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, yellow fever and malaria. Overall, the volume is a remarkable achievement and is packed with detail on regions and the epidemics that are not well known to historians of medicine or disease.
