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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.

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Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century

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Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever. In addition...

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List of epidemics and pandemics

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This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular...

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Native American disease and epidemics

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exchange of microorganisms, including those that cause human diseases. Eurasian infections and epidemics had major effects on Native American life in the colonial...

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Cocoliztli epidemics

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epidemic Native American disease and epidemics History of smallpox in Mexico Skaarup 2015, p. 205. Acuna-Soto, Rodolfo; et al. (2004). "When half of the...

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Sweating sickness

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with other disease outbreaks of the time: whereas other epidemics were typically urban and long-lasting, cases of sweating sickness spiked and receded very...

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Pandemic

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Generally, past epidemics & pandemics have faded out as the diseases become accepted into people's daily lives and routines, becoming endemic. The transition...

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Miasma theory

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accumulation. The miasma theory of disease made sense to the sanitary reformers of the mid-19th century. Miasmas explained why cholera and other diseases were...

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Germ theory of disease

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viroids. Diseases caused by pathogens are called infectious diseases. Even when a pathogen is the principal cause of a disease, environmental and hereditary...

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Contagious disease

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communicable diseases. In 1849, John Snow first proposed that cholera was a contagious disease. Most epidemics are caused by contagious diseases, with occasional...

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Lower Mississippi Valley yellow fever epidemic of 1878

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precautions for any following epidemics. After the epidemic in Shreveport, the Quarantine Act of 1878 was passed that allowed the United States federal government...

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Oklahoma Frontier Drug Store Museum

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tonics, tinctures, and traditional medicines for confronting the struggles with the diseases and epidemics of the 19th century. The Oklahoma Frontier Drug...

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History of medicine

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thousands of strangers. First came epidemics of the childhood diseases of chicken pox, mumps, whooping cough, and, especially, measles. Operations in the South...

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Epidemic

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considered an epidemic. Epidemics of infectious disease are generally caused by several factors including a change in the ecology of the host population...

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1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak

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Epidemiology of tuberculosis Filippo Pacini Great Stink Joseph Bazalgette The Ghost Map William Budd Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century Eyeler, William...

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Great Plague of London

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the centuries-long Second Pandemic, a period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics that originated in Central Asia in 1331 (the first year of the Black...

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Cholera epidemics in Luxembourg

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poverty and poor hygiene conditions, outbreaks were relatively frequent in Luxembourg in the 19th century. Cholera was evidently a common enough fact of life...

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Third plague pandemic

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that waves of this late-19th-century/early-20th-century pandemic may have come from two different sources. The first was primarily bubonic and was carried...

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Spanish flu

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Pandemic – Widespread, often global, epidemic of severe infectious disease List of epidemics List of Spanish flu cases The Israelites asked: "Ma'n Hu?" {?מן...

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Cholera epidemics in Spain

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The cholera epidemics in Spain were a series of morbid cholera outbreaks that occurred from the first third of the 19th century until the end of the same...

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Second plague pandemic

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The second plague pandemic was a major series of epidemics of plague that started with the Black Death, which reached medieval Europe in 1346 and killed...

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Epidemic typhus

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Epidemic typhus, also known as louse-borne typhus, is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural...

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History of Germany

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from the elimination of tariff barriers by the Zollverein. During the second half of the 19th century the German industry grew exponentially and by 1900...

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