Colonial epidemic disease in Hawaii has greatly threatened the Native Hawaiian population since its introduction to the islands over a hundred years ago...

largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer...

those that cause human diseases. European infections and epidemics had major effects on Native American life in the colonial period and nineteenth century...

A pandemic (/pænˈdɛmɪk/ pan-DEM-ik) is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has a sudden increase in cases and spreads across a large region, for...

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called epidemic influenza the 'Chinese catarrh', the Germans called it the 'Russian pest', while the Italians in turn called it the 'German disease'. These...

epidemic was thought to be punishment from a god, and the survivors created a goddess, Sitala, as the anthropomorphic personification of the disease....

Hawaii (/həˈwaɪ.i/ hə-WY-ee; Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi, həˈwɐjʔi]) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3...

100,000 deaths, the death rates dropped below epidemic rates, but the disease continued to be endemic in Hong Kong until 1929. The network of global shipping...

specializes in the history of the French colonial empire, epidemic diseases such as the Third Bubonic Plague Pandemic, and Cold War era mass violence in Southeast...

measles epidemic in Samoa". New Zealand Herald. NZME. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Hofschneider, Anita (9 December 2019). "Hawaii Lt Gov...

all colonial powers. The sleeping sickness epidemic in Africa was arrested due to mobile teams systematically screening millions of people at risk. In the...

course of the disease is quite easy, but it is unpleasant in that it distracts the sick from classes’. Doctors - contemporaries of the epidemic - noted that...

of epidemics and fires due to crowded conditions, and according to a report received by the US Influenza Information Center on 3 May, the disease was...

infectious disease outbreaks than any warfare or direct attacks. By 1507, their numbers had shrunk to 60,000. Scholars believe that epidemic disease (smallpox...

the French conquest as a result of war, massacres, disease and famine. Famines and disease epidemics were partially caused by French confiscation of farmland...

an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown. It was the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. The epidemic was...

consolidation of native peoples in the 19th century allowed epidemic diseases to rage through their communities." In addition to this "a result of changing...

labour policies, enforced by colonial administrators, used to collect natural rubber for export. Combined with epidemic disease, famine, and falling birth...

Nui, have endured famines, epidemics of disease, civil war, environmental collapse, slave raids, various colonial contacts, and have seen their population...

Indigenous peoples in the Americas, and the establishment of several settler colonial states. Russia began colonizing the Pacific Northwest in the mid-18th...

Health Metrics and Evaluation. Retrieved January 10, 2023. "The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States: The Basics". Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved April...

measures kept the disease contained in Honolulu and Oʻahu with only a few cases on Kauaʻi. The disease mainly affected Native Hawaiians with the total number...

Northern Mariana Islands. Data in the 2010 columns comes from Health Data. Overall, life expectancy at birth in Hawaii, Washington, California, and New...

fought those who sought to capture and kill Hawaiians afflicted with Hansen's disease. August 2022 — In House of the Dragon, the TV adaptation of George...

Polynesian ethnic groups, behind the Māori, Samoans and Hawaiians. The first Polynesian settlers arrived in Tahiti around 400 AD by way of Samoan navigators...

Spanish crown found it difficult to enforce these laws in distant colonies. Epidemic disease was the overwhelming cause of the population decline of...

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Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas. Russian colonial possessions in the Americas were collectively known as Russian America...

combined with epidemics of infectious diseases from Europe, devastated both the Māori population and their social standing in New Zealand. In the 20th and...