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2 days ago · 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.
May 1, 2024 · Contents. List of deadliest floods. This is a list consisting of the deadliest floods worldwide with a minimum of 60 deaths.
3 days ago · Ten deadliest natural disasters by highest estimated death toll excluding epidemics and famines. This list takes into account only the highest estimated death toll for each disaster and lists them accordingly. It does not include epidemics and famines.
Apr 17, 2024 · But a review of data suggests that, at minimum, tens of thousands of people died in climate-change-influenced weather events around the world last year. Deaths reported from extreme weather events like heat waves are almost always undercounts.
Apr 15, 2024 · Geography & Nature. Natural disasters with the most fatalities worldwide 2023. Published by. Einar H. Dyvik , Apr 15, 2024. In 2023, the earthquake that hit Turkey in February was the natural...
6 days ago · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
Apr 16, 2024 · Hurricane Katrina, tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in August 2005, breaching levees and causing widespread death and damage. Ultimately, the storm caused more than $160 billion in damage, and it reduced the population of New Orleans by 29 percent between the fall of 2005 and 2011.
