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2. History of public health in the United States - Wikipedia

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   At critical points in American history the public health movement focused on different priorities. When epidemics or pandemics took place the movement focused on minimizing the disaster, as well as sponsoring long-term statistical and scientific research into finding ways to cure or prevent such dangerous diseases as smallpox, malaria, cholera.

3. Health in the United States - Wikipedia

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   According to research by the CDC, chronic disease is also especially a concern in the elderly population in America. Chronic diseases like stroke, heart disease, and cancer were among the leading causes of death among Americans aged 65 or older in 2002, accounting for 61% of all deaths among this subset of the population. [15]

4. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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   Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections , an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered ...

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6. Category:Disease outbreaks in the United States - Wikipedia

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   0–9. 1738–1739 North Carolina smallpox epidemic; 1789–1790 influenza epidemic; 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic; Tennessee cholera epidemic (1849–1850)

7. Native American disease and epidemics - Wikipedia

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   Aside from that, most of the major infectious diseases known today originated in the Old World. The American era of limited infectious disease ended with the arrival of Europeans in the Americas and the Columbian exchange of microorganisms, including those that cause human diseases. European infections and epidemics had major effects on Native ...

8. Brett Favre's Parkinson's diagnosis reignites questions about ...

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   The Summary. Brett Favre revealed Tuesday that he has Parkinson's disease. Early research has established a likely link between contact sports like football and Parkinson’s, as well as ...

9. Colonial epidemic disease in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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   The history of colonial disease in Hawaii did not end with Captain Cook's diseases. Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, Hawaii was hit with many more outbreaks of disease. In 1803, a plague (thought to be yellow fever ) came to the islands killing possibly up to 175,000 people. [ 10 ]