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The diseases ranged in severity, some being catastrophic and others being not quite as deadly. One of the most prominent plagues during this period was the Antonine Plague (165–180 AD). The people of Imperial Rome often had a very small amount of insight regarding the diseases that were overtaking their society.
From the east the plague spread westward reaching Rome in 166 and nearly every corner of the empire by 172. The co-emperor Lucius Verus died from the plague in 169 and it ravaged the Roman army. [22] [23] The plague endured until about 180 and another epidemic, possibly related, is reported by Dio Cassius to have struck the city of Rome in 189 ...
Contemporary sources indicate the plague originated in Aethiopia, but treating Aethiopia as the source of contagious diseases goes at least as far back as Thucydides' account of the Plague of Athens. That the plague reached Alexandria at least one year before it reached Rome, however, is a mark in favour of an East African origin. [17]
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 ...
A rare fungal infection thought to mainly occur in the northern Midwest and parts of the Southeast is more common in other parts of the U.S. than expected, new research published Wednesday finds ...
There have been 68 human cases of bird flu in 11 states since Jan. 1, 2024, including one death in Louisiana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has not included ...
The Roman Plague of 590 was an epidemic of plague that affected the city of Rome in the year 590. [1] Probably bubonic plague , it was part of the first plague pandemic that followed the great plague of Justinian , which began in the 540s and may have killed more than 100 million Europeans [ 2 ] before spreading to other parts of the world [ 3 ...
According to the Ohio Wildlife Center, the disease leads to a poor quality of life, and the center said the most humane option is having professionals capture the animal and euthanize them.