Colonial epidemic disease in Hawaii has greatly threatened the Native Hawaiian population since its introduction to the islands over a hundred years ago...

largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer...

those that cause human diseases. Eurasian infections and epidemics had major effects on Native American life in the colonial period and nineteenth century...

A pandemic (/pænˈdɛmɪk/ pan-DEM-ik) is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or...

called epidemic influenza the 'Chinese catarrh', the Germans called it the 'Russian pest', while the Italians in turn called it the 'German disease'. These...

epidemic was thought to be punishment from a god, and the survivors created a goddess, Sitala, as the anthropomorphic personification of the disease....

100,000 deaths, the death rates dropped below epidemic rates, but the disease continued to be endemic in Hong Kong until 1929. The network of global shipping...

specializes in the history of the French colonial empire, epidemic diseases such as the Third Bubonic Plague Pandemic, and Cold War era mass violence in Southeast...

all colonial powers. The sleeping sickness epidemic in Africa was arrested due to mobile teams systematically screening millions of people at risk. In the...

fought those who sought to capture and kill Hawaiians afflicted with Hansen's disease. August 2022 — In House of the Dragon, the TV adaptation of George...

have caused the 1889 epidemic. A Belgian team performed a similar analysis of OC43, identifying a crossover date in the late 1800s. In 2021, examination...

of epidemics and fires due to crowded conditions, and according to a report received by the US Influenza Information Center on 3 May, the disease was...

the French conquest as a result of war, massacres, disease and famine. Famines and disease epidemics were partially caused by French confiscation of farmland...

Nui, have endured famines, epidemics of disease, civil war, environmental collapse, slave raids, various colonial contacts, and have seen their population...

at times such violence and colonial removal exacerbated disease’s effects. The population decline among Native Americans in the 19th century can be attributed...

labour policies, enforced by colonial administrators, used to collect natural rubber for export. Combined with epidemic disease, famine, and falling birth...

even the genocide of the Indigenous peoples in the Americas, and the establishment of several settler colonial states. Some settler colonies remain relatively...

an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown. It was the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. The epidemic was...

measles epidemic in Samoa". New Zealand Herald. NZME. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Hofschneider, Anita (9 December 2019). "Hawaii Lt Gov...

Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas. Russian colonial possessions in the Americas are collectively known as Russian America...

Terrible Epidemics: The Third Plague Pandemic". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2021-01-01. "Honolulu's Battle with Bubonic Plague". Hawaiian Almanac and...

Polynesian ethnic groups, behind the Māori, Samoans and Hawaiians. The first Polynesian settlers arrived in Tahiti around 400 AD by way of Samoan navigators...

Nandeeni Patel and Diana (2019-11-22). "The youth vaping epidemic: Addressing the rise of e-cigarettes in schools". Brookings. Retrieved 2022-04-26. Stobbe,...

Health Metrics and Evaluation. Retrieved January 10, 2023. "The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States: The Basics". Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved April...

measures kept the disease contained in Honolulu and Oʻahu with only a few cases on Kauaʻi. The disease mainly affected Native Hawaiians with the total number...

warming will also lead to changes in disease distribution at certain altitudes. At high elevation in the Hawaiian Islands, for example, it is expected...

Spanish crown found it difficult to enforce these laws in distant colonies. Epidemic disease was the overwhelming cause of the population decline of...

deadly to Native Americans. In the 100 years following the arrival of the Spanish to the Americas, large disease epidemics depopulated large parts of the...

of the devastating effect of infectious disease on an unexposed population. In 1875–76 the resulting epidemic of measles killed over 40,000 Fijians, about...

Both during and after the colonial era in American history, white settlers engaged in prolonged conflicts with Native Americans in the United States, seeking...