The 2012–2013 Swansea measles epidemic began in November 2012 and was declared over on 3 July 2013. There were a total of 1,219 measles notifications (suspected...
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South Wales Evening Post (category Mass media and culture in Swansea)
Daily Mail and General Trust. In 2013 the paper gained national attention during the 2013 Swansea measles epidemic as it had previously led a campaign...
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"The Measles Epidemic of 1714–1715 in New France". Canadian Studies in Population. 36 (3–4): 295–323. doi:10.25336/P63P5Q. Devaux, Christian A. (2013). "Small...
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lethargica epidemic lasted from around 1918 to 1930. The cause is still unknown. Though the cause was once attributed to the coinciding Spanish flu epidemic, modern...
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List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom (category Use British English from August 2013)
Archived from the original on 22 November 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2009. "Measles Outbreak: Data". www.wales.nhs.uk. Public Health Wales. "Mean CET ranked...
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An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population...
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for Wales. 3 April – 2013 Swansea measles epidemic: The number of measles cases in the Swansea area surpasses 500. The epidemic is believed to be linked...
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The Cocoliztli Epidemic or the Great Pestilence was an outbreak of a mysterious illness characterized by high fevers and bleeding which caused 5–15 million...
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1826–1837 cholera pandemic (redirect from Cholera epidemic of 1831)
China and Japan. Cholera caused more deaths, more quickly, than any other epidemic disease in the 19th century.[citation needed] The medical community now...
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The 2019 Samoa measles outbreak began in September 2019. As of 6 January 2020, there were over 5,700 cases of measles and 83 deaths, out of a Samoan population...
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During the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the register of deaths between August 1 and November 9. The...
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Sweating sickness (redirect from Sweating sickness epidemics)
disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485. Other major outbreaks of the English sweating sickness...
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The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in Western Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major...
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The 2023–2024 Bangsamoro measles outbreak is an outbreak of measles affecting the autonomous region of Bangsamoro in the Philippines since 2023. An outbreak...
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New Zealand measles outbreak was an epidemic that affected New Zealand, primarily the Auckland region. The outbreak was the worst epidemic in New Zealand...
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Antonine Plague (category Smallpox epidemics)
Near East. Scholars generally believe the plague was smallpox, although measles has also been suggested, and recent genetic evidence strongly suggests...
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Spanish flu (redirect from Great Flu Epidemic)
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza...
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Pandemic (redirect from Global epidemics)
account of the Measles Epidemic of 1875" (PDF). Transactions and Proceedings of the Fiji Society. for the years 1955–1957: 6(1): 3–16. "Measles hits rare Andaman...
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2010s Haiti cholera outbreak (redirect from 2010–2013 Haiti cholera outbreak)
climate variability. Early efforts were made to cover up the source of the epidemic, but thanks largely to the investigations of journalist Jonathan M. Katz...
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The 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic spanned 1836 through 1840 but reached its height after the spring of 1837, when an American Fur Company steamboat...
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735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic (天平の疫病大流行, Tenpyō no ekibyō dairyūkō, "Epidemic of the Tenpyō era") was a major smallpox epidemic that afflicted much of...
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History of cholera (redirect from Cholera epidemic)
ISBN 978-0-313-34102-1. Archived from the original on 2013-11-26. Retrieved 2016-07-28. Eastern European Plagues and Epidemics 1300–1918 Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback...
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In 2019, a measles epidemic broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The epidemic started in early 2019 in the southeast corner of the...
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March 2013, an epidemic was declared in Swansea, Wales, UK with 1,219 cases and 88 hospitalizations to date. A 25-year-old male had measles at the time of...
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la Santé Publique. 1 March 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2019. "Madagascar measles epidemic kills more than 1,200 despite desire for vaccinations". The Associated...
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Vaccine hesitancy (section Wales, measles (2013–))
vaccine was completely safe. "Swansea measles epidemic: Worries over MMR uptake after outbreak". BBC News. July 10, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2014. "600...
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The Disneyland measles outbreak began at the Disneyland Resort, California, in December 2014, and spread to seven states in the United States, Mexico...
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2009 swine flu pandemic (redirect from 2009 H1N1 flu epidemic)
standing practices which include looking for passengers with symptoms of flu, measles or other infections, and relying on in-flight air filters to ensure that...
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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS (redirect from AIDS epidemic)
Retrieved 30 October 2009. "AIDS epidemic in Washington, DC". pri.org. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2018. "The epidemiology...
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1977 Russian flu (redirect from 1977–1978 Russian flu epidemic)
anthropogenic origin of the virus, and the pandemic is the only documented human epidemic believed to result from research activity. It has been suggested by many...
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