Category: Health
Created by: marija.horvat
Number of Blossarys: 21
Five years before 39-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio, the paralyzing disease struck thousands in the U.S., killing some 6,000. During the 1916 epidemic, 9,000 cases ...
The origin of the Spanish flu pandemic, and the relationship between the near-simultaneous outbreaks in humans and swine, have been controversial. One hypothesis is that the virus strain originated ...
First reported in Asia in 2003, it was the illness that popularized the surgical-mask as street wear. More than 8,000 people were sickened and 774 died after contracting the disease from droplets ...
This bubonic plague outbreak (541-542) spread throughout the Byzantine Empire, centered on the Mediterranean region. It halted the reconquest of lands once part of the Roman Empire. Estimates vary ...
The first signs of plague in Moscow appeared in late 1770, which would turn into a major epidemic in the spring of 1771. The measures undertaken by the authorities, such as creation of forced ...
In 1878, thousands of refugees fled Cuba during the tail end of the Ten Years' War for independence from Spain — and with them they carried yellow fever. Despite government efforts, including the ...
Malaria is still a major problem in developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where around 90 percent of all deaths from the disease occur. WHO estimates that in 2012, there were ...