List of epidemics

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This article is a list of major epidemics.

Contents

[edit] Worldwide Pandemics

[edit] Regional

[edit] Asia

[edit] Africa

[edit] Australia

[edit] Central and South America

[edit] Europe

[edit] Egypt

[edit] North America

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ The History of the Bubonic Plague
  2. ^ On the trail of the Black Death
  3. ^ The Islamic World to 1600: The Mongol Invasions (The Black Death)
  4. ^ Self-limiting nature of seasonal cholera epidemics: Role of host-mediated amplification of phage
  5. ^ Cholera outbreak in Iraq growing, Associated Press
  6. ^ African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), WHO
  7. ^ Reanalyzing the 1900-1920 sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda
  8. ^ Nigeria cholera outbreak kills 400
  9. ^ Cholera Spreads Through South Africa Townships
  10. ^ Worst cholera outbreak in Angola, BBC
  11. ^ "Mourners die as fever grips Congo." Sydney Morning Herald, August 30, 2007
  12. ^ Fatal outbreak not a cholera epidemic, insists Ethiopia
  13. ^ Somalia cholera death fears grow
  14. ^ Madagascar: eighteen dead from Bubonic Plague, five in hospital since 1 January 2008
  15. ^ Cholera epidemic in western Chad kills 123
  16. ^ BC [Before Cook and Colonisation]
  17. ^ Aboriginal Health History
  18. ^ South Australian History Timeline (19th Century)
  19. ^ Australian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI) - Colonial Medical Life
  20. ^ Texas Department of State Health Services, History of Smallpox
  21. ^ Guns Germs & Steel: Variables. Smallpox
  22. ^ Plague - LoveToKnow 1911
  23. ^ Plague in Tudor and Stuart England
  24. ^ A History of Spain and Portugal
  25. ^ American Indian Epidemics
  26. ^ The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge
  27. ^ Greg Lange,"Smallpox epidemic ravages Native Americans on the northwest coast of North America in the 1770s", 23 Jan 2003, HistoryLink.org, Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, accessed 2 Jun 2008
  28. ^ The first smallpox epidemic on the Canadian Plains: In the fur-traders' words
  29. ^ Epidemics

[edit] References

[edit] On Egypt

  • Kuhnke, Laverne. Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.[1] Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990.
  • Gallagher, Nancy. Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health. Syracuse University Press, c1990. Published by the American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 977-424-295-5
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