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  2. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    1759 North America measles outbreak 1759 North America Measles: Unknown [109] 1760 Charleston smallpox epidemic 1760 Charleston, British North America: Smallpox: 730–940 [110] [111] 1762 Havana yellow fever epidemic 1762 Havana, Cuba: Yellow fever: 8,000 [106] 1763 Pittsburgh area smallpox outbreak 1763 North America, present-day Pittsburgh ...

  3. History of plague - Wikipedia

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    An outbreak in 1471 took as much as 10–15% of the population, while the death rate of the plague of 1479–80 could have been as high as 20%. [35] The most general outbreaks in Tudor and Stuart England seem to have begun in 1498, 1535, 1543, 1563, 1589, 1603, 1625, and 1636, and ended with the Great Plague of London in 1665. [36]

  4. Bubonic plague - Wikipedia

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    The foregut of this flea is blocked by a Y. pestis biofilm; when the flea attempts to feed on an uninfected host, Y. pestis from the foregut is regurgitated into the wound, causing infection. The bubonic plague is an infection of the lymphatic system, usually resulting from the bite of an infected flea, Xenopsylla cheopis (the Oriental rat flea ...

  5. Plague (disease) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 September 2024. Disease caused by Yersinia pestis bacterium This article is about the disease caused by Yersinia pestis. For other uses, see Plague. Medical condition Plague Yersinia pestis seen at 200× magnification with a fluorescent label. Specialty Infectious disease Symptoms Fever, weakness ...

  6. Over half the world at risk of measles outbreaks, WHO warns - AOL

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    During a press conference on Tuesday, WHO noted a 79% increase in global measles cases from 2022, with more than 306,000 cases reported around the world last year.

  7. Flea - Wikipedia

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    Major outbreaks included the Plague of Justinian, about 540, and the Black Death, about 1350, each of which killed a sizeable fraction of the world's people. Fleas appear in human culture in such diverse forms as flea circuses ; poems, such as John Donne 's erotic " The Flea "; works of music, such as those by Modest Mussorgsky ; and a film by ...

  8. Third plague pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The third plague pandemic was a major bubonic plague pandemic that began in Yunnan, China, in 1855. [1] This episode of bubonic plague spread to all inhabited continents, and ultimately led to more than 12 million deaths in India and China [2] (and perhaps over 15 million worldwide [3]), and at least 10 million Indians were killed in British Raj India alone, making it one of the deadliest ...

  9. List of notable disease outbreaks in the United States

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    2012 outbreak of Salmonella; 2012–2013 flu season; 2014 enterovirus D68 outbreak; 2015 Bronx Legionnaires' disease outbreaks; 2015 United States E. coli outbreak; 2015 United States H5N2 outbreak; 2016 United States Elizabethkingia outbreak; 2017–2018 United States flu season; 2018 United States adenovirus outbreak; 2019 New York measles ...