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The disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans annually during the 19th century and one-third of all the blindness of that time was caused by smallpox. 20 to 60% of all the people that were infected died and 80% of all the children with the infection also died. It caused also many deaths in the 20th century, over 300–500 million.
Disease epidemics had afflicted both humans and livestock for many decades before the rinderpest epizootic. Between 1860-1895, the Natal and Zululand regions had suffered from drought and stock disease. White traders introduced Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, which by 1872 had killed 50% of all the cattle in the Zulu Kingdom.
Pages in category "1890s disease outbreaks" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Modern transport infrastructure assisted the spread of the 1889 pandemic. The 19 largest European countries, including the Russian Empire, had about 200,000 km of railroads, and transatlantic travel by sea took less than six days (not significantly different from current travel time by air, given the timescale of the global spread of a pandemic). [11]
The Great Famine was precipitated by an intense drought resulting in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau. [1] This was part of a larger pattern of drought and crop failure across India, China, South America and parts of Africa caused by an interplay between a strong El Niño and an active Indian Ocean Dipole that led to between 19 and 50 million ...
1890s disease outbreaks (3 C, 4 P) E. ... Pages in category "19th-century disease outbreaks" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The road was replaced by those around the reservoir in the early 1890s, the Jersey City News reported in 1890. ... The region has been dealing with severe drought, going more than a month with no ...
The Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879 (Chinese: δΈζε₯θ) was marked by drought-induced crop failures and subsequent widespread starvation.Between 9.5 and 13 million people in China died [1] mostly in Shanxi province (5.5 million dead), but also in Zhili (now Hebei, 2.5 million dead), Henan (1 million) and Shandong (0.5 million). [2]