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2 unusual facts about epidemic


Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Imus

Moreno often prayed in front of the Image of Nana Pilar and ask for the cessation of the Epidemic; the outbreak did kill 3,200 Imuseño, but with the grace of God and intercession of the Blessed Mother it did stop.

The Truth of What Will Be

The Truth of What Will Be is the debut album of the Thrash Metal band Epidemic.


1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic

The 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic was believed to have begun in the spring of 1837 when a deckhand became ill aboard an American Fur Company steamboat, the S.S. St. Peter.

1994 plague epidemic in Surat

Much like the Black Death that spread through medieval Europe, some questions still remain unanswered about the 1994 epidemic in Surat.

American Desperado

Those conversations would last three years, during which time Wright came to realize that Roberts was much more than the de facto “transportation chief” of the Medellín Cartel during the 1980s, much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic.

Ben Savage

Savage's stage debut was in The Laughter Epidemic at the Pasadena Playhouse.

Blackfield II

Hebrew versions of "1,000 People" and "Epidemic" were included in Geffen's album from 2006, "Im Hazman".

Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center

The Hospital of St. Vincent DePaul was incorporated in 1856 by eight Daughters of Charity during the yellow fever epidemic.

Costa del Sol

The agricultural sector suffered a deep depression that affected the raising of livestock and all the major crops, especially cultivation of Vitis vinifera, a grape used for the wine industry, which was devastated by a Phylloxera epidemic.

Cytometry for life

Former UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, has been a major proponent of the movement to make CD4 testing “portable” and “easy to use” so as to mitigate the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

Distin family

While critically hailed, their tour was plagued by illness, a Cholera epidemic that scared away the audience, and unrelated riots.

Donald Henderson

In 1972 Henderson helped suppress an outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia, the last epidemic of smallpox in Europe.

Émile Marchoux

From 1895 he was based in Saint-Louis, Senegal, where he established a laboratory of microbiology, subsequently dealing with an epidemic involving amoebic dysentery.

Enterovirus 71

Until 2008, no large EV71 epidemic had been reported on the Chinese mainland, but sporadic infections were common in the southeast coastal area as well as in inland regions, such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Jinan.

Equine encephalosis virus

Intriguingly, Morocco remains free of the epidemic, suggesting the Sahara desert may be acting as a natural barrier to the progression of the disease.

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

XDR-TB raises concerns of a future TB epidemic with restricted treatment options, and jeopardizes the major gains made in TB control and progress on reducing TB deaths among people living with HIV/AIDS.

Francisco Hernández de Toledo

Hernandez described the gruesome symptoms of the epidemic (referred to as cocoliztli, Nahuatl for "pest") with clinical accuracy.

Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

He was mayor of several towns: from 1845 he was mayor of Weyerbusch/Westerwald; from 1848 he was mayor of Flammersfeld/Westerwald; and finally he was mayor of Heddesdorf from 1852 until late 1865, when, at the age of 47, his worsening health cut his career short; he had caught typhus in 1863 during an epidemic during which his wife had died.

Gandangara people

The Gundungara people were apparently badly affected by an influenza epidemic of 1846/47, which was particularly severe.

Giovanni Defendi

A native of Cosenza, she had lost her parents in a cholera epidemic and had been adopted by the family of the internationalist Tito Zanardelli.

Haydarpaşa Cemetery

The cemetery was first established for British soldiers from the Crimean War, who died mostly as the result of cholera epidemic in the first organized military hospital in modern history created by Florence Nightingale.

History of the Jews in Cincinnati

It is known as the Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati, this plot, which was afterward enlarged, was used as the cemetery of the Jewish community till the year 1849, after the Cholera epidemic.

HIV/AIDS in Yunnan

3 Needles is a 2005 dramatic film depicting the lives of people in Yunnan during the survival of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Hosack's Folly

Based on the life of renowned New York physician Dr. David Hosack, the story takes place in 1820s Manhattan during an impending yellow fever epidemic.

James Oliver Van de Velde

Yellow fever was epidemic in the city at that time and had killed forty of his parishioners.

Juan Antonio Bayona

In October 2008, Variety announced that Universal Studios has signed Bayona to direct Hater, an adaptation of British author David Moody's thriller novel about an epidemic of violence caused by regular people.

Bayona is currently signed up to direct the thriller film Hater, an adaptation of David Moody's novel about an epidemic of violence caused by regular people.

Kalanderpur

A sufi saint Shah Qualander to whom this village was dedicated rescued Dara's army from Cholera epidemic during returning from one of his expedition.The culture of this village is mix.The village is situated in between Jaunpur-Azamgarh and Varanasi-Azamgarh main road.Both main road is two km away from this village.

Katzie

Oe’lecten and his people were based at what is now known as Pitt Lake, Swaneset at Sheridan Hill, Xwoe’pecten at Port Hammond (whose descendants became the Kwantlen), Smakwec at Point Roberts (whose people, the Nicomekl were largely killed in a smallpox epidemic in the 18th century), and C’simlenexw at Point Grey (whose descendents became the Musqueam).

Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI

As such, Asaf Jah VI often sought counsel for matters concerning the Bubonic plague epidemic that worried Hyderabad, and other matters as well.

Marine Hospital Service

Aside from merchant seamen, members of the military, immigrants, Native Americans, other federal beneficiaries, and people affected by chronic and epidemic diseases found a source for health care in the PHS and its hospitals.

Meng Xuenong

A native of Penglai county, Shandong, Meng had previous provincial-level leadership experience as Mayor of Beijing, until he was dramatically sacked for his failure to control and conceal the SARS epidemic.

Muhammad Shams-ul-Haq Azimabadi

In 1910–11 the entire country was in the grip of an epidemic of plague.

Murray Valley encephalitis virus

The virus was isolated from human samples in 1951 during an epidemic in the Murray Valley, Australia.

Olpidium brassicae

In 1983, the Alsike, Alberta area's clover (which is a major part of horses' diet) was struck by a fungus epidemic of Olpidium brassicae, previously not seen in Canada.

Phosmet

Mark Purdey has made the controversial suggestion that phosmet may have played a key role in the epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

Ragout fin

After the late-1980s BSE epidemic, the use of calf brain has become unusual even in high-quality Ragout fin.

Robert A. Holekamp

Concerned about the spread of foulbrood disease among bees in Missouri, Holekamp proposed a bill and successfully lobbied both houses of the Missouri State Legislature to pass a law to address the epidemic.

Ross River virus

In 1956 an epidemic occurred in the Murray Valley which was compared to "acute viral polyarthritis" caused by Chikungunya virus.

Seaforth, New South Wales

One such incident which involved the sale of Methamphetamine and MDMA to children of the local Primary School caused outrage throughout the community, with the Municipal Council of Seaforth famously declaring a "zero tolerance policy" in 2010 to try and combat the rising epidemic.

St. Jude Medical Center

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet began operating their first hospital in Eureka, California in 1919 as a response to the Spanish Flu epidemic.

Structural violence

In his book Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic, James Gilligan defines structural violence as "the increased rates of death and disability suffered by those who occupy the bottom rungs of society, as contrasted with the relatively lower death rates experienced by those who are above them."

Tabloid television

A commonly cited example of tabloid television run amok is a series of reports in 2001 collectively dubbed the Summer of the Shark, focusing on a supposed epidemic of shark attacks after one highly publicized attack on an 8-year-old boy.

U. Muthuramalingam Thevar

In 1924 he missed his final examinations due to an outbreak of a plague epidemic.

Uganda AIDS Orphan Children Foundation

and with operations in four Ugandan districts: Kabale, Rukungiri, Kisoro and Kanungu, UAOCF was formed in 2004 in response to the far-reaching repercussions of the AIDS epidemic.

Vaporware

In his 1989 Network World article, Joe Mohen wrote the practice had become a "vaporware epidemic", and blamed the press for not investigating claims by developers.

Varna culture

The discontinuity of the Varna, Karanovo, Vinča and Lengyel cultures in their main territories and the large scale population shifts to the north and northwest are indirect evidence of a catastrophe of such proportions that cannot be explained by possible climatic change, Desertification, or epidemics.

Yellowworld

In May 2003, Yellowworld.org began Project SARSfund, an online charity to purchase medical supplies and equipment for health workers in China battling the SARS epidemic.


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