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1 day ago · List of epidemics and pandemics. This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time ...
Mar 13, 2024 · People often think of leprosy as a bygone disease, relevant primarily in biblical times. But in fact, it is still present in more than 120 countries, and the US is seeing an uptick in cases.
2 days ago · The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and ...
- February 1918 – April 1920
- Worldwide
- 25–50 million (generally accepted), other estimates range from 17 to 100 million
- Influenza
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Mar 20, 2020 · 1. Yellow Fever. The quarantine station on Staten Island. Image from New York Public Library. In August 1793, a yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia, killing around 5,000 residents out of 50,000 ...
5 days ago · As a contemporary medical authority, the Board recognized that most diseases were not curable; in consequence, it tended to focus on the prevention of disease rather than cure. For the Admiralty, of course, avoiding scurvy and maintaining the health of crews was a strategic and financial necessity; naval surgeons therefore reported on medical ...
Mar 15, 2024 · American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 187, Issue 12, December 2018, Pages 2561–2567. Includes supplementary data PDF with estimates by country. "Mortality burden of the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic in Europe". Séverine Ansart Camille Pelat Pierre‐Yves Boelle Fabrice Carrat Antoine Flahault Alain‐Jacques Valleron.
Mar 5, 2024 · A viral infection, the disease spread along trade routes, emerging first in Africa, Asia and Europe and reaching the Americas in the sixteenth century. Because smallpox requires a human host to survive it tended to smolder in densely populated areas, erupting in a full-blown epidemic every ten years or so. Wherever it appeared, the legacy of ...