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Taking precautions to protect yourself from a quartet of infectious diseases can lessen your odds of starting off 2025 sick. Public health experts are warning of a ‘quad-demic’ this winter.
1772 North America measles epidemic 1772 North America Measles: 1,080 [114] 1772–1773 Persian Plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1772–1773 Persia: Bubonic plague: 2 million [115] 1775–1776 England influenza outbreak 1775–1776 England Influenza: Unknown [116] 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic: 1775–1782
Disease in colonial America that afflicted the early immigrant settlers was a dangerous threat to life. Some of the diseases were new and treatments were ineffective. Malaria was deadly to many new arrivals, especially in the Southern colonies.
In the 150 years that followed Columbus's arrival in 1492, the Native American population of North America was reduced by 80 per cent from diseases, including measles, smallpox and influenza. [66] [67] The damage done by these viruses significantly aided European attempts to displace and conquer the native population. [68] [69]
A toll-free telephone hotline was created by the government to provide updated information about unexplained respiratory illness and to receive calls about suspected hantavirus cases throughout the country. [18] By October, 60 cases of hantaviral disease had been reported nationwide, about half in the Four Corners region.
The first European contact in 1492 started an influx of communicable diseases into the Caribbean. [1] Diseases originating in the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) came to the New World (the Americas) for the first time, resulting in demographic and sociopolitical changes due to the Columbian Exchange from the late 15th century onwards. [1]
It is true that health disparities and cholera still exist today, specifically in native american communities. Today there have been a reported 1.3 to 2 million cases across the world and 21,000 to 14,300 deaths (WHO) [101] Limited access to clean water and poor healthcare infrastructure contribute to the Cholera cases and deaths we see today ...
Researchers looked through the medical literature of established cases of illnesses and found that 218 out of the known 375 human infectious diseases, or 58%, seemed to be made worse by one of 10 ...