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Japanese encephalitis. Japanese encephalitis (JE) is an infection of the brain caused by the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). [3] While most infections result in little or no symptoms, occasional inflammation of the brain occurs. [3] In these cases, symptoms may include headache, vomiting, fever, confusion and seizures. [1]
An 1802 cartoon of Edward Jenner 's cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine. Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever. In addition, cholera emerged as an epidemic threat and spread worldwide in six pandemics in the nineteenth century.
The disease continued to ravage Japan in 737. One manifestation of the pandemic's great impact was that by August of 737, a tax exemption had been extended to all of Japan. [11] Based on fiscal reports, adult mortality for the smallpox epidemic of 735–737 has been estimated at 25–35% of Japan's entire population, with some areas ...
The second cholera pandemic (1826–1837), also known as the Asiatic cholera pandemic, was a cholera pandemic that reached from India across Western Asia to Europe, Great Britain, and the Americas, as well as east to China and Japan. [1] Cholera caused more deaths than any other epidemic disease in the 19th-century, [2] and as such, researchers ...
The third pandemic spread the disease to port cities throughout the world in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century via shipping routes. [57] The plague infected people in Chinatown in San Francisco from 1900 to 1904, [ 58 ] and in the nearby locales of Oakland and the East Bay again from 1907 to 1909. [ 59 ]
Gonorrhea. Gonorrhoea or gonorrhea, colloquially known as the clap, is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. [1] Infection may involve the genitals, mouth, or rectum. [7] Infected males may experience pain or burning with urination, discharge from the penis, or testicular pain. [1]
In northern Japan, Ainu population decreased drastically in the 19th century, due in large part to infectious diseases like smallpox brought by Japanese settlers pouring into Hokkaido. [ 27 ] The Franco-Prussian War triggered a smallpox pandemic of 1870–1875 that claimed 500,000 lives; while vaccination was mandatory in the Prussian army ...
Known for. Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Title. Doctor. Spouse. Yoshiko Miyake. Hakaru Hashimoto (橋本 策, Hashimoto Hakaru, May 5, 1881 – January 9, 1934)[1][2] was a Japanese doctor and medical scientist of the Meiji and Taishō periods. He is best known for publishing the first description of the disease that was later named Hashimoto's ...