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Young people with polio receiving physiotherapy in the 1950s. The social history of viruses describes the influence of viruses and viral infections on human history. Epidemics caused by viruses began when human behaviour changed during the Neolithic period, around 12,000 years ago, when humans developed more densely populated agricultural communities.
London flu: 1972–1973 United States Influenza A virus subtype H3N2: 1,027 [209] 1973 Italy cholera epidemic 1973 Italy Cholera (El Tor strain) 24 [210] 1974 smallpox epidemic in India: 1974 India Smallpox: 15,000 [211] 1977 Russian flu: 1977–1979 Worldwide Influenza A virus subtype H1N1: 700,000 [212] [213] Sverdlovsk anthrax leak: 1979 ...
A specimen of Alphapithovirus measures approximately 1.5 μm (1500 nm) in length and 0.5 μm (500 nm) in diameter, making it the largest virus yet found. It is 50% larger in size than the Pandoraviridae , the previous largest-known viruses, [ 8 ] and is larger than Ostreococcus , the smallest eukaryotic cell, although Pandoravirus has the ...
The pandemic killed 40–50 million people in less than a year, [48] but the proof that it was caused by a virus was not obtained until 1933. [49] Haemophilus influenzae is an opportunistic bacterium which commonly follows influenza infections; this led the eminent German bacteriologist Richard Pfeiffer (1858–1945) to incorrectly conclude ...
[48] [49] When it reached ... The Spanish flu infected around 500 million people, ... and nearly half of deaths were in young adults 20 to 40 years old. In 1920, ...
Michigan health officials this week confirmed a 6-year-old has died after developing complications from RSV or respiratory syncytial virus. The child is reportedly a young boy from the Detroit area.
The healing ointment held in the cattle horn may have been used by the Khoi or San people, farming and hunter-gatherer groups native to South Africa, about 500 years ago, researchers said.
Deep in an Australian cave, archaeologists have uncovered evidence that an Aboriginal ritual may have been passed down 500 generations and survived 12,000 years. 12,000-year-old ritual passed down ...