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The 1889–1890 pandemic, often referred to as the Asiatic flu [53] or Russian flu, killed about 1 million people [54] [55] out of a world population of about 1.5 billion. It was long believed to be caused by an influenza A subtype (most often H2N2), but recent analysis largely brought on by the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic ...
1900–1904 San Francisco plague epidemic; 1916 New York City polio epidemic; 1918–1930 Encephalitis lethargica epidemic; 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak; 1924–1925 Minnesota smallpox epidemic; 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak; 1962-1965 rubella epidemic [2] 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak; 1976 swine flu ...
A lingering outbreak of pertussis — or 100-day cough — and stubbornly infectious flu strain have kept higher numbers of New Yorkers hacking recently after months of battling a particularly ...
Flu season is an annually recurring time period characterized by the prevalence of an outbreak of influenza (flu). The season occurs during the cold half of the year in each hemisphere. It takes approximately two days to show symptoms. Influenza activity can sometimes be predicted and even tracked geographically.
Long Island ducks used as breeding stock at Crescent Duck Farm, move around a barn, in Aquebogue, New York, last October. The continued spread of bird flu has driven a culling of about 100,000 ...
Also in early November, Albert Sabin published a New York Times editorial, "Washington and the Flu." [14] He agreed with the decision to create the vaccine and to be prepared for an outbreak but criticized the "scare tactics" that had been used by Washington to achieve that. He suggested to stockpile the vaccine and to have a wait-and-see strategy.
More than 100,000 ducks at one New York farm are being euthanized due to an outbreak of the avian flu. The animals were a part of the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, Long Island — one of the ...
1702 New York City yellow fever epidemic 1702 New York City, British North America: Yellow fever: 500 [91] 1702–1703 St. Lawrence Valley smallpox epidemic 1702–1703 New France, Canada Smallpox: 1,300 [92] 1707–1708 Iceland smallpox epidemic: 1707–1709 Iceland: Smallpox: 18,000+ (36% of population) [93]