Epidemiology Assignment 2 - History of Epidemics in the New World
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| Date | Location | Epidemic | Infectious agent (type) | Number of fatalities | Population in region | Percent of population affected | Concurrent events in world history | Citations used |
| 1918-1919 | Spain | Spanish Flu (Influenza) | Virus | Approximately 260,000 deaths | unkn | 1% | Europe's Great War was coming to an end and peace was on the horizon. The Americans had joined in the fight, bringing the Allies closer to victory against the Germans. | https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/47/5/668/296225 |
| 1013-2016 | West Africa | Ebola | Virus (Ebola Virus Disease EVD) | Around 11,310 death | unkn | 39.50% | The US' Liberian Ambassador Jeremiah Sulunteh claimed that Liberia may be "close to collapse" in a television interview. | https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/epidemiological-update-concurrent-outbreak-ebola-virus-disease-democratic-republic |
| 2016-2017 | Angola, and Congo | Yellow Fever | Virus (Flavivirus) | Approximately 3625 cases in Angola, 1798 in Congo | unkn | unkn | Tsisekedi returned in Congo from Belgium after 2 years and demanded elections and Kabila’s exit | http://www.who.int/emergencies/yellow-fever/situation-reports/15-july-2016/en/ |
| 2008-2009 | Zimbabwe | Cholera | Bacterium (Vibriocholerae) | 98,596 confirmed cases and 4,369 deaths | unkn | unkn | The then President Mugabe faced imbeachment allegations. | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5739374/ |
| 2011 | Pakistan | Dengue fever | Virus | More than 350 people | unkn | unkn | In November, Bashir Ahmad Bilour was was from a meeting of ANP employees at a private residence in Peshawar, whenhe was attacked and injured by a suicide bomber at 6:15 PM. | |
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