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Seneca nation, North America Measles: Unknown [60] 1592–1593 Malta plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1592–1593 Malta: Bubonic plague: 3,000 [61] 1592–1593 London plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1592–1593 London, England Bubonic plague: 19,900+ [62] 1596–1602 Spain plague epidemic (part of the second ...
The plague lasted 7 months and killed 60,000 people. [citation needed] The bubonic plague continued to circulate through different ports globally for the next fifty years; however, it was primarily found in Southeast Asia. The 1894 Hong Kong plague had particularly high death rates, 90%. [60]
1900–1904 San Francisco plague epidemic; 1916 New York City polio epidemic; 1918–1930 Encephalitis lethargica epidemic; 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak; 1924–1925 Minnesota smallpox epidemic; 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak; 1962-1965 rubella epidemic [2] 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak; 1976 swine flu ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. Disease caused by Yersinia pestis bacterium This article is about the disease caused by Yersinia pestis. For other uses, see Plague. Medical condition Plague Yersinia pestis seen at 200× magnification with a fluorescent label. Specialty Infectious disease Symptoms Fever, weakness ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. Plague or The Plague may refer to: Agriculture, fauna, and medicine Plague (disease), (commonly referred to as bubonic plague or black death), caused by infectious bacteria Yersinia pestis An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural) A pandemic caused by such a disease A ...
Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 inhabitants to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [178] Cairo suffered more than fifty plague epidemics within 150 years from the plague's first appearance, with the final outbreak of the second pandemic there in the 1840s. [115]
On October 29, Yersinia pestis, the bacterium causing the plague, was found in the lungs of a plague victim, a finding not released to the public until after the outbreak. As cases piled up, a telegram sent on October 31 recommended federal aid for the city of Los Angeles , replacing the terms "pneumonic plague", "death", and "situation" with ...
The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown. It was the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. [1] The epidemic was recognized by medical authorities in March 1900, but its existence was denied for more than two years by California's Republican governor Henry ...