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1681 Prague plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1681 Prague, Czech Kingdom: Bubonic plague: 83,000 [87] 1687 South Africa influenza outbreak 1687 South Africa: Unknown, possibly influenza: Unknown [88] 1693 Boston yellow fever epidemic 1693 Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British North America: Yellow fever: 3,100+ [89]
The 1918 influenza pandemic has been declared, according to Barry's text, as the 'deadliest plague in history'. The extensiveness of this declaration can be supported through the following statements: "the greatest medical holocaust in history" [2] and "the pandemic ranks with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics". [3]
It explores the impact of infectious diseases on human history. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of academic disciplines, Kennedy argues that pandemics have played a crucial role but overlooked role in many of the great social, political and economic transformations of the past, including the extinction of Neanderthals, the emergence of Christianity and Islam as world religions, the ...
Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
At least three million were affected in Niger and 10 million throughout West Africa [174] [175] [176] Niger and West Africa: 2009–2013 Thirteenth Kere: Madagascar: 2011–2012: Famine in Somalia, brought on by the 2011 East Africa drought [177] Somalia: 285,000: 2012: Famine in West Africa, brought on by the 2012 Sahel drought [178]
The Spanish Flu, the second deadliest pandemic in history after the bubonic plague, along with the aftermath of World War I and ensuing political and social chaos, made 1918 a tough time to be alive.
A natural reservoir of plague is located in western Yunnan and is an ongoing health risk today. The third pandemic of plague originated in this area after a rapid influx of Han Chinese to exploit the demand for minerals, primarily copper, in the latter half of the 19th century. [52] By 1850, the population had exploded to over 7,000,000 people.