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unusual facts about epidemics



Adolph Walter Rich

He helped raise funds for the relief of the several yellow fever epidemics, the 1875 Oshkosh fire, the 1889 Johnstown flood, and the 1900 Galveston hurricane.

Anderson Gray McKendrick

Some of this papers other results for stochastic models of epidemics and population growth were rediscovered by William Feller in 1939.

Anshei Sphard Beth El Emeth Congregation

Yellow fever epidemics in the 1870s affected the congregation's leadership; its rabbi, Ferdinand Sarner, died in 1878, and Jacob Peres died in 1879.

Błonia

Until the 19th century Błonia Park was largely neglected, and often flooded by the Rudawa river in the spring turning it into wetland with small islands, probably contributing to the spread of epidemics.

Bohumín

The town began to develop during rule by the House of Hohenzollern, although further development of Bogumin was halted by frequent epidemics of bubonic plague and floodings of the Olza.

Bornholm disease

Coxsackie B virus is spread by contact and epidemics usually occur during warm weather in temperate regions and at any time in the tropics.

Botswana–United States relations

In 1995, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) started the BOTUSA Project in collaboration with the Botswana Ministry of Health in order to generate information to improve tuberculosis control efforts in Botswana and elsewhere in the face of the TB and HIV/AIDS co-epidemics.

Charles Jacque

Fleeing the Cholera epidemics that besieged Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, Charles Jacque relocated to Barbizon in 1849 with Millet.

Epidemic Intelligence Service

Persons participating in the program, popularly called "disease detectives", are called "EIS Officers" by the CDC and have been dispatched to investigate possible epidemics, due to both natural and artificial causes, including anthrax, hantavirus, and West Nile virus in the United States and Ebola in Uganda and Zaire.

Isakki

She is generically considered one of the Village Goddesses, like Māri, the goddess of epidemics.

Languages of Peru

Yet from the time of European conquest, epidemics and periods of forced work (in addition to the influence of the hegemonic Spanish language), fewer than 150 can be counted today.

Plagues and Peoples

"He does a commendable job in providing a surprising amount of the details of even sometimes overlooked epidemics and plagues." - Chicago Daily News

Post-Polio Health International

After the polio epidemics in the United States ended, the March of Dimes had changed its mission from polio to birth defects; most of the special rehabilitation hospitals and clinics devoted to polio survivors were closing; clinical specialists in polio were scattering.

Potatuck

Many of the remnant Potatuck amalgamated with survivors of the Weantinock, Mohegan and other indigenous people, after losses due to epidemics and warfare from European colonization pressures.

Rahon

After that period, Rahon began a gradual decline due to epidemics, attacks from foreign invaders, and a reduction in merchant activity when the silk route began to bypass Rahon in favor of Kabul.

Tielt

The following decades, however, were hard on Tielt as it went through two major fires and a couple of epidemics, including the plague.

William S. Condon

In Malcolm Gladwell's 2000 book, The Tipping Point, he cites Condon's research to help explain why some "Salesman" types may contribute more to word-of-mouth cultural 'epidemics'.


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