Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Between 1620 and 1621, Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 people to it, with outbreaks returning in 1654 to 1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740 to 1742. [37] Plague remained a major event in Ottoman society until the second quarter of the 19th century.
1350 BC plague of Megiddo c. 1350 BC Megiddo, land of Canaan: Amarna letters EA 244, Biridiya, mayor of Megiddo complains to Amenhotep III of his area being "consumed by death, plague and dust" Unknown [29] Hittite Plague/"Hand of Nergal" c. 1330 BC Near East, Hittite Empire, Alashiya, possibly Egypt: Unknown, possibly Tularemia.
The plague killed two-thirds of the inhabitants of Helsinki, [53] and claimed a third of Stockholm's population. [54] Western Europe's last major epidemic occurred in 1720 in Marseilles, [45] in Central Europe the last major outbreaks happened during the plague during the Great Northern War, and in Eastern Europe during the Russian plague of ...
But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of Europe, in medieval times is very much still with us today.
Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, ... Cases still happen today. Susan Scutti and Katie Hunt. July 5, 2024 at 11:26 AM. CDC.
The 1623 Malta plague outbreak is contained after killing around 40 people on the island of Malta. [47] ... 1620. Aelbert Cuyp Winston Churchill John Evelyn. January 1.
At critical points in American history the public health movement focused on different priorities. When epidemics or pandemics took place the movement focused on minimizing the disaster, as well as sponsoring long-term statistical and scientific research into finding ways to cure or prevent such dangerous diseases as smallpox, malaria, cholera.
U.S. 50 and Ohio 128 were reopened. The railcar’s temperature had been stabilized, and the car had been transported to its final destination in Addyston, officials told the media at an evening ...