Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Fourth Edition

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Praise for the previous edition:

"...the entries provide vivid historical detail...No other work approaches this topic in such a brief, encyclopedic manner...a useful addition to any academic reference collection..."-Choice

"...a useful resource for high school and public libraries..."-Booklist

"...does an excellent job...a conscious effort to put a human perspective on pestilence...Given the climate of the times and the concerns about bioterrorism, this title would be useful for a variety of subject areas. Recommended."-The Book Report

 

Tracing the history of infectious diseases from the Philistine plague of 11th century BCE to the COVID-19 pandemic, Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive A-to-Z reference offering international coverage of this timely and fascinating subject.

This updated volume provides concise descriptions of more than 740 epidemics, listed alphabetically by location of the outbreak. Each detailed entry includes when and where a particular epidemic began, how and why it happened, who it affected, how it spread and ran its course, and its outcome and significance. Full-color and black-and-white photographs, maps, appendixes, a bibliography, and a chronology are also included.

New and updated coverage includes:

• Cholera


• Cocoliztli


• COVID-19


• Ebola


• H1N1


• Hepatitis A


• HIV/AIDS


• Legionnaires' Disease


• Malaria


• MERS


• Rift Valley fever


• Typhoid


• Yellow Fever


• Zika

Sujets

• Histoire
• Virology
• Medicine
• Immunology
• Pandemic
• World
• Plague
• History
• Pestilence
• Science

Informations

• Publié par: Infobase Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781646937691
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2021 by George Childs Kohn; fourth edition updated by William E. Burns
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Contents Entries Afghan cholera epidemics Afghan influenza epidemic Afghan smallpox epidemic African and Asian conjunctivitis pandemic African cholera pandemic African malaria epidemics Albenga meningitis epidemic Algerian relapsing fever epidemic Algerian typhus epidemic Angolan cholera epidemic Angolan Marburg fever (MF) epidemic Angolan poliomyelitis epidemic Angolan smallpox epidemic Antonine plague Arabian smallpox epidemic of 569–571 Ashanti influenza epidemic Ashanti plague Asiatic and European influenza pandemic of 1836–1837 Asiatic cholera pandemic, 1817–1823 Asiatic cholera pandemic, 1826–1837 Asiatic cholera pandemic, 1846–1863 Asiatic cholera pandemic, 1865–1875 Asiatic cholera pandemic, 1881–1896 Asiatic cholera pandemic, 1899–1923 Asiatic cholera pandemic, 1961–1975 Asiatic, European, and North American influenza pandemic of 1830–1831 Asiatic influenza pandemic of 1889–90 Astrakhan cholera epidemic Astrakhan plague Atsina smallpox epidemic Augsburg typhus epidemic Australian influenza epidemic Australian Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE) epidemics Australian rubella epidemic Australian scarlet fever epidemic Australian smallpox epidemic Austrian and Prussian typhus epidemics avian influenza outbreaks Bahamian yellow fever epidemic Bangkok poliomyelitis epidemic Bangladeshi smallpox epidemic Barbadian yellow fever epidemic of 1647 Barbadian yellow fever epidemic of 1691 Barcelona yellow fever epidemic Basel plague Black Death Blackfoot smallpox epidemic Bolivian hemorrhagic fever epidemic Boston smallpox epidemic, 1666 Boston smallpox epidemic, 1677–1678 Boston smallpox epidemic, 1702–1703 Boston smallpox epidemic, 1721–1722 Boston smallpox epidemic, 1763–1764 Brazilian HIV/AIDS epidemic Brazilian malaria epidemic Brazilian onchocerciasis epidemic Brazilian plagues Brazilian smallpox epidemic, 1555–1562 Brazilian smallpox epidemic, 1660 Brazilian smallpox epidemic, 1665–1666 Brazilian smallpox epidemic, 1878 Brazilian smallpox epidemic, 1905 Brazilian smallpox epidemic, 1967–1971 Brazilian yellow fever outbreak British cholera epidemic, 1832 British cholera epidemic, 1865–1866 British cholera epidemics of 1848–1849 and 1853–1854 British Columbian typhoid epidemics British encephalitis epidemic British influenza epidemic, 1918–1919 British influenza epidemic, 1950–1951 British influenza epidemic, 1957–1958 British influenza epidemic, 1968–1970 British "Legionnaires Disease" British "Mad Cow" disease British mumps epidemic British smallpox epidemic, 1796 British smallpox epidemic, 1816–1819 British smallpox epidemic, 1837–1840 British smallpox epidemic, 1871–1872 British smallpox epidemic, 1901–1902 British typhoid epidemic in the Boer War Burmese dengue hemorrhagic fever epidemics Burundian meningitis epidemic C diz yellow fever epidemic, 1800 C diz yellow fever epidemic, 1810 Cairo and Alexandria diphtheria epidemics Calcutta smallpox epidemics of the 1800s Cambridge typhus epidemic Canadian cholera epidemic, 1849 Canadian cholera epidemic, 1854 Canadian cholera epidemics Canadian influenza epidemic Canadian measles epidemic Canadian smallpox epidemic Canadian smallpox epidemic Canadian typhus epidemic Cape Colony and Cape Town smallpox epidemic, 1713 Cape Colony and Cape Town smallpox epidemic, 1755 Cape Colony and Cape Town smallpox epidemic, 1882–1885 Caribbean dengue epidemics Caribbean HIV/AIDS epidemic Carthaginian plague of 396 BCE Cava typhus epidemic of 1083 Cayuse measles epidemic central Asian cholera epidemic Chadian cholera epidemic Chadian meningitis Chadian sleeping sickness Chadian smallpox epidemics Charles V s army epidemic at Metz Charleston yellow fever epidemic, 1699 Charleston yellow fever epidemic, 1706 Charleston yellow fever epidemics, 1728 and 1732 Charleston yellow fever epidemics, 1792–1799 Chinese cholera epidemic , 1820–1822 Chinese cholera epidemic, 1932 Chinese cholera epidemic, 1937–1942 Chinese cholera epidemic, 1945–1946 Chinese dengue epidemics Chinese HIV/AIDS epidemic Chinese influenza epidemic Chinese plague, 1917–1918 Chinese plague, 1931–1932 Colombian smallpox epidemic Congolese Ebola outbreaks Congolese sleeping sickness epidemic Connecticut smallpox epidemic Constantine malaria epidemic Constantinople plague of ca. 747–748 Copenhagen poliomyelitis epidemic "Cough of Perinthus" COVID-19 Pandemic of 2019− Cremona diphtheria epidemic Crimean War epidemics Crusader epidemic at Acre Crusader epidemic at Adalia Crusader epidemic at Al Mansurah Crusader epidemic at Antioch Crusader scurvy epidemic at Damietta Dalmatian plague dancing mania Danzig plague Danzig plague Danzig typhus epidemic, 1807 Danzig typhus epidemic, 1813 Delhi hepatitis epidemic Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola outbreaks Democratic Republic of the Congo typhoid outbreaks Durban dengue epidemic East Asian COVID-19 Epidemic of 2019− eastern European and central Asian HIV/AIDS epidemic Ecuadoran plagues Edinburgh plague, 1530 Edinburgh plague, 1568–1569 Edinburgh plague, 1585 Edinburgh plague, 1597 Egyptian cholera epidemic, 1883 Egyptian cholera epidemic, 1902 Egyptian cholera epidemic, 1947 Egyptian malaria epidemic Egyptian plague Egyptian plague of 1347–1349 Egyptian relapsing fever epidemic Egyptian Rift Valley Fever (RVF) epidemic Egyptian typhus epidemic encephalitis lethargica epidemic English plagues, 1400s English plagues, 1500s English smallpox epidemic, 1751–1753 English smallpox epidemic, 1825–1826 English sweating sickness epidemics English typhus epidemic, 1816–1819 English typhus epidemic, 1837–1838 English typhus epidemic, 1847–1848 Ethiopian cholera epidemic Ethiopian influenza epidemic Ethiopian malaria epidemic Ethiopian smallpox epidemics Ethiopian typhus epidemic Ethiopian yellow fever epidemic European and American hepatitis A outbreak European COVID-19 Epidemic of 2020− European diphtheria epidemic European influenza epidemics, 1742–1743 and 1762 European influenza epidemics, early 18th century European influenza pandemic, 1781–1782 European influenza pandemic, 1788–1789 European influenza pandemic, 1833 European influenza pandemic, 1847–1848 European influenza pandemic, 1889–1890 European malaria epidemic of 1678–82 European malaria epidemics of 1805–12 and 1823–27 European smallpox pandemic Exeter typhus epidemic Faeroe (Faroe) Islands measles epidemic Fiji Islands dengue epidemics Fiji Islands epidemics Fiji Islands measles epidemics Finnish ergotism epidemics Florence dysentery epidemic of 1425 Florence plague Florence plague of 1347–1348 Florence plague of 1417 Florence plague of 1430 Frankish plagues of the sixth century CE Frankish smallpox epidemic of 580 CE Frederick Barbarossa s army epidemic French army syphilis epidemic French army typhus epidemic French cholera epidemic French cholera epidemics French dysentery epidemic, 1738–1742 French dysentery epidemic, 1779 French influenza epidemic French miliary fever epidemics French plagues, 1450–1520 French plagues, 1520–1600 French plagues, 1625–1640 French Polynesian measles epidemic, 1854 French Polynesian measles epidemic, 1950–1951 French typhus and typhoid epidemics French typhus epidemics Gabonese Ebola epidemic Gabonese Ebola outbreaks German, Austrian, and Swiss plagues, 1500s German, Austrian, and Swiss plagues, 1663–1668 and 1675–1683 German cholera epidemics German plagues of 1462–1465 German typhus and dysentery epidemics German typhus epidemic German typhus, typhoid, and dysentery epidemics Ghanian malaria epidemic Ghanian meningitis epidemics Ghanian plague Ghanian sleeping sickness epidemic Ghanian smallpox epidemic Ghanian tuberculosis epidemic Ghanian yellow fever epidemic Gibraltar yellow fever epidemics Gilbert and Ellice Islands measles epidemics Granada typhus epidemic of 1489 Great Canadian smallpox epidemic Great Plague of Athens Great Plague of England Great Plague of Iceland Great Plague of Ireland Great Plague of London Great Plague of Scotland Great Plague of Vienna Greenlandic smallpox epidemic Guam encephalitis epidemic Guam mumps epidemic Guatemalan dysentery epidemic Guayaquil yellow fever epidemics Guinean smallpox epidemic Haitian cholera epidemic Haitian yellow fever epidemic, 1794–1798 Haitian yellow fever epidemic, 1802 Hamburg cholera epidemic Havana yellow fever epidemic, 1761–1762 Havana yellow fever epidemic, 1899–1900 Hawaiian dengue fever outbreak Hawaiian plague outbreak Hawaiian smallpox epidemic Henry IV s army epidemics of 1081–1083 Hispaniola smallpox epidemic, 1507 Hispaniola smallpox epidemic, 1518 Hispaniola yellow fever epidemic of 1495–1496 HIV/AIDS pandemic Hong Kong influenza pandemic Hong Kong plague Houston encephalitis epidemic Huron epidemics Icelandic smallpox epidemic Indian and Burmese sprue epidemic Indian and Nepalese encephalitis epidemics Indian-Bangladeshi cholera epidemic Indian cholera epidemic, 1781–1783 Indian cholera epidemic, 1817–1818 Indian cholera epidemic, 1826–1827 Indian cholera epidemic, 1860–1861 Indian cholera epidemic, 1864–1865 Indian cholera epidemic, 1867–1868 Indian cholera epidemic, 1875–1877 Indian cholera epidemic, 1891–1892 Indian cholera epidemic, 1900 Indian cholera epidemic, 1964–1966 Indian conjunctivitis epidemic Indian dengue hemorrhagic fever epidemics Indian dengue outbreak Indian encephalitis epidemic Indian HIV/AIDS epidemic Indian influenza epidemic, 1918–1919 Indian influenza epidemic, 1957–1558 India