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The 1875–1876 Australia scarlet fever epidemic was a severe outbreak of scarlet fever in the British colonies of Victoria and New South Wales in Australia.Part of a series of measles and scarlet fever epidemics in Victoria as a result of poor sanitation in the post-gold rush era, the epidemic claimed in both colonies the lives of over 8,000 people, mainly children. [1]
The Australian Measles Control Campaign was initiated in August 1998 as part of the World Health Organization's global measles eradication program, and in response to major epidemics in Australia throughout 1994/95, together with a report predicting another impending measles epidemic in Australia.
Polio epidemic. [7] Epidemic: New South Wales: 750 to 2,600: 1789: Smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal peoples [8] Epidemic: Sydney, New South Wales: 748: 1867 Feb–June: Measles epidemic in Sydney city & inner suburbs. Most of the victims were children under the age of 4. [9] Epidemic: Australia-wide: 535: 1900–1925: Bubonic plague. [10 ...
During a November 2019 measles epidemic that killed 80 children in Samoa, Kennedy wrote to the country’s prime minister falsely claiming that the measles vaccine was probably causing the deaths ...
1867 Sydney measles epidemic 1867 Sydney, Australia Measles: 748 [164] 1871 Buenos Aires yellow fever epidemic: 1871 Buenos Aires, Argentina Yellow fever: 13,500–26,200 [165] 1870–1875 Europe smallpox epidemic 1870–1875 Europe Smallpox: 500,000 [166] [167] 1875 Fiji measles outbreak 1875 Fiji: Measles: 40,000 [168] 1875–1876 Australia ...
A measles outbreak is defined as three or more related cases, with disruptive outbreaks defined as 20 or more cases per 1 million people in a year. PHOTO: In this undated stock photo, a child is ...
In early 2010, there was a serious outbreak of measles in the Philippines with 742 cases, leaving four unvaccinated children dead in the capital city of Manila. [103] In late 2013, it was reported in the Philippines that 6,497 measles cases occurred which resulted in 23 deaths. [104] In 2014 the Philippines experienced a large measles outbreak.
As a result of these poor conditions, epidemics ran rampant in the Moonta area during the mine's early days. [4] In 1874, Moonta faced a measles epidemic which had a significant impact on the mining settlements. The spread of measles to the Moonta district was first reported by Northern Argus on 20 October 1874. By December of the same year, an ...