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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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  • " Estimates for the entire number of human lives lost during the Cocoliztli epidemics in New Spain have ranged from 5 to 15 million people, making it one...
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    as epidemics/pandemics due to the lack of definite data, such as time span and death toll. Malaria has had multiple documented temporary epidemics in...
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    disease and epidemics Millenarianism in colonial societies Cocoliztli epidemics Footnotes Crosby, Alfred W. (1976). "Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor...
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    cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic. Epidemics of infectious disease are generally caused by several factors including...
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    burdens of disease: epidemics and human response in western history. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2528-4. Hays JN (2005). Epidemics and pandemics:...
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    history of epidemics maintained by the Chinese Empire from 243 B.C. to 1911 A.C. shows an approximate correlation between the frequency of epidemics and the...
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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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    2012 Ghana had cholera epidemics combined that totaled 16,000 cases and 130 deaths. September 2015: Ongoing cholera epidemic in Tanzania resulting in...
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  • Over the next several centuries, Japan continued to experience smallpox epidemics. But by the early part of the 2nd millennium, smallpox had become endemic...
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    one route, and perhaps struck England before Constantinople. List of epidemics Medieval demography Plague of Amwas The volcanic winter of 536 Stathakopoulos...
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    toll for each disaster and lists them accordingly. It does not include epidemics and famines. The list also does not include the 1938 Yellow River flood...
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    2021 study noted that the COVID-19 pandemic had increased interest in epidemics and infectious diseases among both historians and the general public....
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    generally more extensive epidemics. Each experienced another significant wave of illness over the winter. The second epidemic in New South Wales was more...
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    Mississippi Valley began to take precautions for any following epidemics. After the epidemic in Shreveport, the Quarantine Act of 1878 was passed that allowed...
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    The pathogen that caused the cocoliztli epidemics in Mexico of 1545 and 1576 is still unknown, and the 1545 epidemic may have been bacterial rather...
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    has added to the body of epidemiological evidence indicating that cocoliztli epidemics (Nahuatl name for viral haemorrhagic fever) were indigenous fevers...
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    virus was "hopping" all over the Western African epidemic region. Furthermore, most past epidemics had occurred in remote regions, but this outbreak...
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  • within hours. Sweating sickness epidemics were unique compared with other disease outbreaks of the time: whereas other epidemics were typically urban and long-lasting...
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  • Justinian I's name is sometimes applied to the whole series of plague epidemics in late Antiquity. The pandemic is best known from its first and last...
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    situations. This is to say that policies and programs sprung up around epidemics and quarantines, wherever they were needed in the moment. However, the...
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    acquired during travel to South Asia. Plague of Athens (suspected) Cocoliztli epidemics (suspected) "Burning Fever" outbreak among indigenous Americans....
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  • Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah informed medieval Muslim theological responses to epidemics, including the Black Death. Principles derived from the narratives were...
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  • Taylor & Francis. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-203-83397-1. J. N. Hays (2005). Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History. Santa Barbara, California:...
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    fever epidemics in 1797, 1798, and 1799, which kept the origin and treatment controversies alive. Some of the city's clergy suggested the epidemic was a...
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    debatable due to improvements in reporting since the epidemics of 1875 and 1967. The 1974 epidemic occurred during the country’s intensified campaign against...
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    16th century Influenza pandemic (1510) Mexican smallpox (1520) "Cocoliztli" epidemics in colonial Mexico (1545, 1576) Influenza pandemic (1557–1559) London...
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    Asia have resulted in HIV epidemics differing across the region.[citation needed] In South and Southeast Asia, the HIV epidemic remains largely concentrated...
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    from Mexico in 1951. Native American disease and epidemics History of smallpox Hays, J.N. (2006). Epidemics and Pandemicas. Santa Barbara, California: ABC...
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  • v t e Pandemics, epidemics and notable disease outbreaks List of epidemics and pandemics Local Global First plague pandemic (541–767) Second plague pandemic...
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