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1350 BC plague of Megiddo c. 1350 BC Megiddo, land of Canaan: Amarna letters EA 244, Biridiya, mayor of Megiddo complains to Amenhotep III of his area being "consumed by death, plague and dust" Unknown [29] Hittite Plague/"Hand of Nergal" c. 1330 BC Near East, Hittite Empire, Alashiya, possibly Egypt: Unknown, possibly Tularemia.
Distribution of plague infected animals and people, as of 1998. Plague cases were massively reduced during the second half of the 20th century, but outbreaks still occurred, especially in developing countries. Between 1954 and 1997, human plague was reported in 38 countries, making the disease a re-emerging threat to human health. [65]
The overall risk of death for all types of plague in the U.S., according to Mayo Clinic, is around 11%. The most important factor for survival is that medical attention begins promptly.
Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 inhabitants to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [178] Cairo suffered more than fifty plague epidemics within 150 years from the plague's first appearance, with the final outbreak of the second pandemic there in the 1840s. [115]
The Antonine Plague of AD 165 to 180, also known as the Plague of Galen (after Galen, the Greek physician who described it), was a prolonged and destructive epidemic, [1] which impacted the Roman Empire. It was possibly contracted and spread by soldiers who were returning from campaign in the Near East.
Plague doctors also sometimes took patients' last will and testament during times of plague epidemics, [17] and gave advice to their patients about their conduct before death. [18] This advice varied depending on the patient, and after the Middle Ages , the nature of the relationship between doctor and patient was governed by an increasingly ...
The Great Plague killed an estimated 100,000 people—almost a quarter of London's population—in 18 months. [2] [3] The plague was caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, [4] which is usually transmitted to a human by the bite of a flea or louse. [5] The 1665–66 epidemic was on a much smaller scale than the earlier Black Death pandemic. It ...
The Italian plague of 1629–1631, also referred to as the Great Plague of Milan, was part of the second plague pandemic that began with the Black Death in 1348 and ended in the 18th century. One of two major outbreaks in Italy during the 17th century, it affected northern and central Italy and resulted in at least 280,000 deaths, with some ...