Some flu seasons are more severe than others, with some of the worst flu outbreaks in history taking out thousands of citizens. So, which were the worst flus in the United States? Outbreaks going back all the way back to the American Revolution were deeply damaging, so many think deadly ...
One of the deadliest series of pandemics in history occurred in the 19th century. Over the course of five pandemics, the once little known disease unique to the Indian subcontinent claimed an estimated 15 million lives over the course of the 19th century alone. Outbreaks were often accompanied b...
The CDC is strongly recommending men who have sex with men living in Florida get a meningococcal vaccine in response to an outbreak that has sickened 24 people and killed seven.Emma BascomInfectious Disease News
As Honolulu and San Francisco faced outbreaks, the cities’ responses caused devastation to Asian communities. World War I How World War I’s Legacy Eclipsed the 1918 Pandemic Both World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic were devastating events in history. So why did memorials for one event...
During the outbreak of 1592-93, the Crown ordered the complete closure of all theatres in London. Shakespeare, then working with Lord Strange’s Men at the Rose theatre, would have been in the midst of a run of hisHenry VIhistory plays (Bradbrook, 65), and likely financially devastated by...
What year was the worst measles epidemic in history?Question:What year was the worst measles epidemic in history?Measles:Measles is highly contagious but not generally lethal, though young children are at risk of complications or death. It is generally thought of as a childhood disease because on...
Estimates ofthe total economic loss from the wildfireshave ballooned to more than $250 billion, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Countywide, gross domestic product is expected to drop by an estimated $4.6 billion this year. ...
The worst industrial accident in history led to a law regulating not accidents but chronic emissions. A decade later, in 1996, the more normal focus on disasters was reasserting itself, and the U.S. launched its Risk Management Plan program, requiring factories to reveal their worst case accid...
In addition, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in both child and adult patients with a history of COVID-19 was characterized by elevated blood levels of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8 and IL-10 (ref.55), suggesting a role for the inflammatory response in pathogenesis. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome ...
She walked it well enough, until the kidney disease. She hovered around that threshold for a couple of years:Stage 1 symptomsshowing up in the blood work from one check-up and thenNo, wait, back to normalthe next. But kidney disease is a patient and implacable fucker; two thirds of all...