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An 1802 cartoon of Edward Jenner 's cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine. Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever. In addition, cholera emerged as an epidemic threat and spread worldwide in six pandemics in the nineteenth century.
The 2022–2023 mpox outbreak in the United States is part of the larger outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. The United States was the fourth country outside of the African countries with endemic mpox, to experience an outbreak in 2022. The first case was documented in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 17 ...
616. The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in Soho, London, England, and occurred during the 1846–1860 cholera pandemic happening worldwide. This outbreak, which killed 616 people, is best known for the physician John Snow ...
GNIS feature ID. 2397117 [4] Website. www.vanwert.org. Van Wert is a city in and the county seat of Van Wert County, Ohio, United States. [6] It is located in northwestern Ohio approximately 77 miles (124 km) southwest of Toledo and 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The population was 11,092 at the 2020 census.
COVID-19 pandemic. This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2024. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
1863–1875. Deaths. 600,000 [1] [verification needed] The fourth cholera pandemic of the 19th century began in the Ganges Delta of the Bengal region and traveled with Muslim pilgrims to Mecca. In its first year, the epidemic claimed 30,000 of 90,000 pilgrims. [2] Cholera spread throughout the Middle East and was carried to the Russian Empire ...
Midwestern, Southern, Northeastern United States. Part of the Tornadoes of 2024. A significant early spring tornado outbreak occurred throughout the Midwestern and Northeastern United States, with the most significant impacts occuring in Indiana and Ohio. More than two dozen tornadoes occurred, eight of them strong to intense.
