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The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults. Some childhood diseases include:
Infectious diseases: The death rate from infectious diseases—especially tuberculosis, influenza and pneumonia—fell by 90% from 1900 to 1950. By the late 1940s, Penicillin was the major drug in use. [100] Chronic diseases: As infectious disease mortality declined, cardiovascular disease and cancer became leading causes of death. [101]
The disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans annually during the 19th century and one-third of all the blindness of that time was caused by smallpox. 20 to 60% of all the people that were infected died and 80% of all the children with the infection also died. It caused also many deaths in the 20th century, over 300–500 million.
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 ...
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Vaccination with toxoid was not widely used until the early 1930s. [57] In 1939, Dr. Nora Wattie , who was the Principal Medical Officer (Maternity and Child Welfare) of Glasgow between 1934– 1964, [ 58 ] introduced immunisation clinics across Glasgow , and promoted mother and child health education, resulting in virtual eradication of the ...
Disease Discoverer 2600 BC: Malaria [1] 1900 BC: Rabies: 1600 BC: Cancer: Hippocrates: ca 300: Dengue: Jin Dynasty (266–420) 9th century: Measles: Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi: 14th century: African trypanosomiasis: First described by Arab traders [2] 1798: Color blindness: John Dalton: 1798: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: John Dalton: 1881 ...
Colonial epidemic disease in Hawaii has greatly threatened the Native Hawaiian population since its introduction to the islands over a hundred years ago. Beginning with the first colonizers led by Captain James Cook that arrived in the islands in 1778, [ 1 ] all the way up until today, foreign disease has been present in Native Hawaiians.