Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century - Wikipedia
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 …
1881–1896 cholera pandemic - Wikipedia
The fifth cholera pandemic (1881–1896) was the fifth major international outbreak of cholera in the 19th century. The endemic origin of the pandemic, as had its predecessors, was in the …
Cholera - HISTORY
Sep 12, 2017 · Each year, cholera infects 1.3 to 4 million people around the world, killing 21,000 to 143,000 people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). What Is Cholera? …
List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia
Pandemics timeline death tolls. This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as …
Epidemics - Encyclopedia of Chicago
Something diagnosed as “inanition”—lethargy probably resulting from malnutrition—killed 314 in 1881. But most devastating was the smallpox epidemic that killed 1,180 in late 1881 and 1,292 …
Tuberculosis in Europe and North America, 1800-1922
Tuberculosis, also known as “consumption,” “phthisis,” or the “white plague,” was the cause of more deaths in industrialized countries than any other disease during the 19th and early 20th …
Cholera Epidemics: Five Pandemics in the Nineteenth Century
During the nineteenth century, five cholera pandemics swept through India, Asia, Europe, and North America, infecting huge segments of the population and killing millions of people; a …
London's smallpox maps - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
In 1881, a Royal Commission into infectious diseases was set up to look into hospital provision and decide whether any should be closed. Part of the Commission's work was production of …
Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century
First appearing in Europe and North America beginning in 1831–1832 and presumed to have come from India, epidemic cholera returned and traveled around the world many times through …
Cholera - Pandemic, Waterborne, 19th Century | Britannica
Oct 9, 2024 · The first six pandemics. Cholera became a disease of global importance in 1817. In that year a particularly lethal outbreak occurred in Jessore, India, midway between Calcutta …