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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 (U Pennsylvania Press, 1995) Starr, Paul. The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Basic Books, 1982). very wide ranging history of American medicine. Teller, Michael . The Tuberculosis Movement : A Public Health Campaign in the Progressive Era (1988)
In Colonial America, local doctors, midwives, healers and even officials administered medical care to the residents in their village or town. [2] There was no distinction between physicians and surgeons; when an emergency occurred the person who was responsible for administering medical care was expected to handle all aspects of the problem. [2]
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 ...
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 outbreak; 2019 Pacific Northwest measles outbreak; 2019 United States hepatitis A outbreak
0–9. 1738–1739 North Carolina smallpox epidemic; 1789–1790 influenza epidemic; 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic; Tennessee cholera epidemic (1849–1850)
As a result, all papayas sold before July 23, 2011, were voluntarily recalled by Agromod. The cases were reported between January 1 and July 18 in 23 states. More than half of the cases were women, with ages ranging from 1 to 91 and an average age of 20; Texas had the most cases with 25 people falling ill.
When that video raked up hundreds of thousands of views in a matter of days, it inspired him to reimagine other ways to teach math, including using the tune to Swift's "Anti-Hero" to help students ...
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 ]