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An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic. [1]
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 ...
Outbreak response or outbreak control measures are acts which attempt to minimize the spread of or effects of a disease outbreak.Outbreak response includes aspects of general disease control such as maintaining adequate hygiene, but may also include responses that extend beyond traditional healthcare settings and are unique to an outbreak, such as physical distancing, contact tracing, mapping ...
The 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 Japan. Killing approximately one third (around 1 million individuals) of the entire Japanese population, the epidemic had significant social, economic, and ...
Tennessee cholera epidemic (1849–1850) 1853 yellow fever epidemic; 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic; 1924–1925 Minnesota smallpox epidemic; 1962–1965 rubella epidemic; 1976 swine flu outbreak; 1987 Carroll County cryptosporidiosis outbreak; 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak; 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak
2014 Odisha hepatitis outbreak; 2015 United States H5N2 outbreak; 2016 Angola and DR Congo yellow fever outbreak; 2018 Madagascar measles outbreak; 2019 New York measles outbreak; 2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic; 2021 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala; 2023–2024 mpox epidemic; 2024 dengue outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean; 2024 Gaza ...
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