• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    American smallpox epidemic. Estimates based on remnant settlements say at least 130,000 people were estimated to have died in the epidemic that started in...
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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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    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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    7,047,396 confirmed deaths, making it the fifth-deadliest pandemic or epidemic in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from asymptomatic to deadly, but most...
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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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  • experienced one of its deadliest outbreaks of smallpox beginning in 1707. The epidemic ultimately killed around 12,000 Icelanders, close to one-quarter 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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    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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