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Hace 5 días · For millennia, the infection has afflicted people around the globe, earning ominous nicknames like “the white plague,” “consumption,” and even “the robber of youth.”
Hace 2 días · The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and ...
Hace 2 días · Classic explanations include yellow fever, bubonic plague, influenza, smallpox, chickenpox, typhus, and syndemic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis D. 1,143,000–3,429,000 (estimated 30–90% of population) [68] [69] 1629–1631 Italian plague (part of the second plague pandemic ) 1629–1631. Italy. Bubonic plague.
Hace 3 días · plague, infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas. Plague was the cause of some of the most-devastating epidemics in history. It was the disease behind the Black Death of the 14th century, when as much as one-third of Europe’s population died.
Hace 5 días · We may conclude with Jean and René Dubos (The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society. London: Gollancz, 1953) that in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
Hace 2 días · Plague-infected fleas, bred in the laboratories of Unit 731 and Unit 1644, were spread by low-flying airplanes over Chinese cities, including coastal Ningbo and Changde, ... This team wore white overall suits, army hats, rubber boots, and pistols strapped to their sides.
Hace 2 días · Her public airing to 163,000 followers and others has drawn attention to bias that continues to plague the housing industry, ... Dr. Baxter kept her camera off while Mr. Miller, who is white, ...
