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Feb 20, 2021 · Europe’s industrialization and urbanization then led to the rise of other diseases, including tuberculosis. The history of this disease has become famous through the work of Thomas McKeown (1912–1988), who showed that the decline of tuberculosis in England had started long before the introduction of antibiotics.
- Johan P. Mackenbach
- 2021
May 23, 2022 · Other than TBE, pertussis, influenza, gonorrhea, and chlamydia were the only other infectious diseases to have seen significant (P<0.05) increases in 2020 vs. the mean of the three previous years, and only in select countries. Influenza increased by 4% in Germany, gonorrhea by 11% in Switzerland, chlamydia by 7% in Finland, and pertussis by 176 ...
- 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.101972
- 2022/09
An outbreak in Zimbabwe in 2008–09 kills more than four thousand people, and major outbreaks in Haiti and Yemen each affect more than a half million people. Some three million people are ...
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Jul 15, 2020 · At time of writing when several billion people are in ‘lock‐down’ the history of infectious diseases has a new relevance. Much important historical work on how epidemics and infectious disease were brought under control, the escape from premature death, and the sources of the spectacular long‐term improvements in life expectancy over the last two centuries has been published or ...
- Leigh Shaw-Taylor
- 10.1111/ehr.13019
- 2020
- Econ Hist Rev. 2020 Aug; 73(3): E1-E19.
- St Kilda Islanders Hardships: three-fourths of People Down with Illness
- Influenza and Inoculation: Test on Manchester Medical Students
- Prince’s Tour Postponed: Influenza on Board The Renown
- The New Influenza
- Life in Vienna: 40,000 Cases of Influenza
- More Influenza: Epidemic in Localised Communities
1 May 1920 A graphic account of the hardships and distress of the St Kilda islanders was told by Captain Craig, of the trawler Active, which is acting as mail boat between Aberdeen and St Kilda, on its arrival at Aberdeen today. Captain Craig said out of the sparse population of some 80 islanders 60 were prostrated with illness, in most cases influ...
26 March 1920 Some two hundred medical students, from Manchester University have, at the instance of Professor HR Dean, recently been inoculated against influenza with a vaccine provided by the Government. The after effects of the injection, it would appear, are not so unpleasant as in the case of inoculation for typhoid, only one student of the 20...
8 March 1920 It is officially announced that the departure of the Prince of Wales for Australia, which was to have taken place to-morrow, is unavoidably delayed by an outbreak of influenza on board the Renown. The ship has been placed in quarantine, and it is hoped that no fresh cases will occur. The Prince intends to sail at the earliest possible ...
The Observer, 7 March 1920 The epidemic of influenza [in Vienna] continues; in connection with it there have been serious cases of inflammation of the brain. The number of school children is diminishing terribly, and only five per cent of them are properly fed. Of the two women’s lying-in hospitals it is intended to close one, as there is not a suf...
The Observer, 29 February 1920 There are 40,000 cases on influenza in Vienna at present, most of the patients have have to live in icy rooms, and they are mainly without milk, proper food, and medicines. On the other hand, large quantities of milk are consumed by the rich with chocolate, etc; they get it from the milk-sellers who receive it for inf...
27 February 1920 The Ministry of Health, in a memorandum on influenza, states that as regards England and Wales influenza is epidemic in a few localised communities, and that the type is similar to but less severe that that of 1918-19. There is no evidence of the existence of pandemic influence in these islands at the present time comparable with t...
Christian of Brunswick was consumed in 1626 “by a gigantic worm”; Charles II of Spain, dying in 1700, was held to be bewitched; men suffered from “the falling sickness” and “distemper.”. There are no reliable statistics about height and weight. It is difficult even to define what people regarded as normal good health.
Mar 28, 2008 · V.2 Diseases of Western Antiquity; V.3 Diseases of the Middle Ages; V.4 Diseases of the Renaissance and Early Modern Europe; V.5 Diseases and the European Mortality Decline, 1700–1900; V.6 Diseases of Sub-Saharan Africa to 1860; V.7 Diseases of Sub-Saharan Africa since 1860; V.8 Diseases of the Pre-Columbian Americas; V.9 Diseases of the ...
