The 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak was an outbreak of the pneumonic plague in Los Angeles, California that began on September 28, 1924, and...
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Pneumonic plague is a severe lung infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, headache, shortness of breath, chest pain...
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several outbreaks of bubonic and pneumonic plague in the 21st century. In the outbreak beginning in 2014, 71 died; in 2017, 202 died. Smaller outbreaks occurred...
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List of epidemics and pandemics (redirect from List of Bubonic plague outbreaks)
|journal= ignored (help) Viseltear A.J. (March 1974). "The Pneumonic Plague Epidemic of 1924 in Los Angeles". Yale J. Biol. Med. 47 (1): 40–54. PMC 2595158. PMID 4596466...
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three types of plague are the result of the route of infection: bubonic plague, septicemic plague, and pneumonic plague. Bubonic plague is mainly spread...
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Africa. 51-year-old Jesus Lujan was the index case of the 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak which killed 33. There are many known "patient zeros"...
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Francisco plague epidemic 1916 New York City polio epidemic 1918–1930 Encephalitis lethargica epidemic 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak 1924–1925...
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American television film Contagious is about people dying in Los Angeles from a cholera outbreak. List of epidemics and pandemics "Cholera factsheet" (Press...
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COVID-19 pandemic (redirect from 2019-2020 China pneumonia outbreak)
"I've seen 'Contagion' four times. No, the coronavirus outbreak isn't the same". Los Angeles Times. 11 March 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2023. McGuire K (March...
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Nora Sterry (category People from Los Angeles)
today for her work during the 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak. Nora Sterry Elementary School in west Los Angeles is named in her honor. Nora...
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1846–1860 cholera pandemic (category 1840s disease outbreaks)
outbreak of cholera originating in India in the 19th century that reached far beyond its borders, which researchers at University of California, Los Angeles...
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Spanish flu (redirect from Plague of 1918)
names still prevail, such as lightning catarrh and fog plague. "Grippe is not new". Los Angeles Herald. 14 January 1899. p. 6 col. 6. Retrieved 7 August...
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(WHO) made an emergency announcement of the existence of a multi-country outbreak of mpox, a viral disease then commonly known as "monkeypox". The initial...
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2009 swine flu pandemic (redirect from Mexican swine flu outbreak)
(6 March 2020). "Why the coronavirus outbreak isn't likely to be a repeat of the 1918 Spanish flu". Los Angeles Times. Schwarzmann SW, Adler JL, Sullivan...
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Hong Kong flu (category 1968 disease outbreaks)
first recorded instance of the outbreak appeared on 13 July 1968 in British Hong Kong. It has been speculated that the outbreak began in mainland China before...
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Western African Ebola epidemic (redirect from 2014 Guinea ebola outbreak)
Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major loss of life and socioeconomic...
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pandemic 1918 Spanish flu pandemic 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak 1968 flu pandemic 1972 London flu Mumps outbreaks in the 21st century 2009 flu...
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1826–1837 cholera pandemic (category 1820s disease outbreaks)
coast. While cholera had spread across India many times previously, this outbreak went farther; it reached as far as China and the Mediterranean Sea before...
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Since 2012, an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus has affected several countries, primarily in its namesake, the Middle East. The...
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September 2016. Times, Los Angeles (18 May 2016). "Yellow fever outbreak: Health officials to weigh declaring global emergency". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved...
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1974 smallpox epidemic in India (category 1974 disease outbreaks)
Retrieved 5 December 2024. "30,000 Killed in India in Smallpox Epidemic". Los Angeles Times. 6 October 1974. pp. A4. Henderson, Donald A. (2009). Smallpox :...
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outbreak occurred in the Portland metropolitan area, including the Clark County, Washington suburbs, in the United States. At the time, the outbreak was...
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decline, including exposure to Eurasian diseases such as influenza, pneumonic plagues, and smallpox; direct violence by settlers and their allies through...
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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS (category 1980s disease outbreaks)
States, where it is most common in the large cities of California, esp. Los Angeles and San Francisco and the East Coast, ex. New York City and in urban...
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meningococci" "Work on the blood sedimentation reaction" "Work on Pneumonic Plague and especially the discovery of the role played by the Tarbagan in...
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