These epidemics were less fatal due to a greater understanding of the cholera bacteria.

Not less than another 42, 900 people are thought to have perished in the Neuengamme concentration camp ( situated about outside the city in the marshlands ), mostly due to epidemics and in the bombing of evacuation vessels at the end of the war.

Despite the calamity, Lisbon suffered no epidemics and within less than one year was already being rebuilt.

Epidemiologists often consider the term outbreak to be synonymous to epidemic, but the general public typically perceives outbreaks to be more local and less serious than epidemics

In the 16th and 17th centuries, wars and epidemics became steadily less frequent and as a result the population of the country increased strongly.

Despite the calamity, Lisbon suffered no epidemics, and within less than a year it was already being rebuilt.

Advanced levels in the game feature epidemics where the player must either pay a fine and take a reputation hit or try to stop a disease infecting other patients by curing infected patients and vaccinating others within a certain time limit and without discovery by the Ministry of Health ( catching the attention of the ministry by the means of an infected patient leaving the hospital or the time limit running out brings upon a usually more severe fine and harder reputation hit this is glitched in some versions of the game and sometimes fine the players less if they try to cover up the epidemic, while successfully suppressing the outbreak and before news reaches the ministry will bring upon bonuses ).

Among others, Steven Rottman, director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters, said that no scientific evidence exists that bodies of disaster victims increase the risk of epidemics, adding that cadavers posed less risk of contagion than living people.

Following the Thirty Year War ( 1618 – 1648 ) and further epidemics, the number of inhabitants dropped to less than 400 in 1655.

However, when various health epidemics struck Chattanooga in 1873 and 1878, several wealthy families relocated to the mountain where they could find clear air and pure water.

Either topics are closed resorts in natural areas for wealthy clients on the run from life-threatening epidemics generated by sexual contact.

Dr. J. R. Frayser, a prominent old Memphis physician, was one of many wealthy Memphians who invested in property along the new railroad to the north and built a summer home to use as a haven when fever epidemics struck Memphis.

Some countries in Asia are theoretically in danger of yellow fever epidemics ( mosquitoes with the capability to transmit yellow fever and susceptible monkeys are present ) even though the disease does not yet occur there.

This coincided with drought associated with an el Nino oscillation, human epidemics of smallpox, and in several countries, intense war.

Shigellosis is a more common and serious condition in the developing world ; fatality rates of Shigellosis epidemics in developing countries can be 5 – 15 %.

Four major epidemics have occurred in recent history: one from 1896 – 1906 primarily in Uganda and the Congo Basin, two epidemics in 1920 and 1970 in several African countries, and a recent 2008 epidemic in Uganda.

Outbreaks may also refer to epidemics, which affect a region in a country or a group of countries, or pandemics, which describe global disease outbreaks.

Genotypes 1 and 2 are restricted to humans and often associated with large outbreaks and epidemics in developing countries with poor sanitation conditions.

Other examples are vandalism of public buildings, extremely large epidemics that disrupt normal functioning of society's institutions, such as in the case of AIDS in Africa ; external military intervention, such as in the invasion of Iraq by the USA and allied nations ; and even ( paradoxically ), external aid to countries which are rich in natural resources but have a poor economy and / or corrupt government ( the so called " resource curse ")

Low prevalence in other countries disguises serious, localized epidemics.

N. meningitidis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality during childhood in industrialized countries and has been responsible for epidemics in Africa and in Asia.

The World Service Trust was founded in 1955 as a special agency of the Mondcivitan republic for the purpose of giving impartial aid to people and countries in circumstances of poverty, famine, disease and epidemics, as well as natural disasters.

The population is declining in many countries, partly due to a rash of unexplained epidemics, partly due to disgust with the process of procreation itself.

The high birthrate was offset by a very high rate of infant mortality and emigration, especially after about 1840, mostly to the German settlements in the United States, plus periodic epidemics and harvest failures.

Polio had existed for thousands of years quietly as an endemic pathogen until the 1880s, when major epidemics began to occur in Europe ; soon after, widespread epidemics appeared in the United States.

Henrique da Rocha Lima in 1916 then proved that the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii was the agent responsible for typhus ; he named it after H. T. Ricketts and Stanislaus von Prowazek, two zoologists who had died from typhus while investigating epidemics.

While at first these planters relied almost exclusively on the native Tupani for slave labor, a titanic shift toward Africans took place after 1570 following a series of epidemics which decimated the already destabilized Tupani communities.

Several causes explain this process: The definitive breakdown of the production system based on slavery in existence from the time of the late Roman Empire, the continuous propagation of epidemics in the area, and the abandonment of Al Andalus by the Berber regiments after the revolt of 740-741.

The French finally took the city December 10, 1809, after many deaths on both sides from hunger, epidemics, and cold ; Álvarez de Castro died in prison one month later.

Their population had declined after epidemics of infectious diseases, for which they had no acquired immunity, as these were endemic among European settlers and new to North America.

The book uses geography to show how Europeans developed such superior military technology, and how Europeans and Asians developed some immunity to diseases which spread among them, while epidemics of them devastated the indigenous populations in the Americas after European contact.

Serfdom developed in Eastern Europe after the Black Death epidemics, which not only stopped the migration but depopulated Western Europe.

The growth of viticulture in Madeira expanded when the sugar industry was attacked by cheaper exports from the New World and Africa, but also from various epidemics and the after affects of the 1566 privateer sacks.

From the outset, the undertaking was beset by poor planning and provision, weak leadership, lack of demand for trade goods, devastating epidemics of disease and increasing shortage of food ; it was finally abandoned after a siege by Spanish forces in April, 1700.

Their arrival had coincided with epidemics after 1634 of smallpox and other infectious diseases, to which aboriginal peoples had no immunity.

The early history of mechanical ventilation begins with various versions of what was eventually called the iron lung, a form of noninvasive negative pressure ventilator widely used during the polio epidemics of the 20th century after the introduction of the " Drinker respirator " in 1928, and the subsequent improvements introduced by John Haven Emerson in 1931.

It was Leicester's second reservoir ( after Thornton ), built in response to the 1831 and 1841 cholera epidemics.

Most of the early epidemics subsided naturally after a few years.

Eastern Connecticut, originally inhabited by the Quinnipiac Nation ’ s sub-sachemships of the Eastern Nehantic, Podunk, and Wangunk, as well as the Narragansett, suffered more losses than western Connecticut, and so in 1506, after 80 % population losses due to epidemics, the Pequotoog moved into the area from the upper Hudson region and pushed the survivors of the Narragansett into what is now Rhode Island, and the Nehantic wedged in close to the Connecticut River ( Old Lyme ).

As in other parts of Mexico, the indigenous peoples suffered from epidemics of European infectious diseases and maltreatment, which decimated the population after contact.

Kudus were highly susceptible to the rinderpest virus ( now eradicated after a vaccination program in domestic cattle ), and many scientists think recurring epidemics of the disease reduced kudu populations in East Africa.

The Bombay City Improvement Trust which was set after a bill was passed in the British parliament, formulated this plan in order to relieve congestion in the centre of the town, following the plague epidemics of the 1890s.

* Marian Plague Column – a work by an unknown artist, located on the main square, put erected in 1703 after the plague epidemics of the 16th and 17th centuries.

For 350 years after the European arrival by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, the Portuguese portion of the basin remained a former planned agricultural landscape untended by those who survived the epidemics.

Non-natives reached the region in the late 1700s, after which native populations began to decline rapidly, due to epidemics and the decimation of the bison herds on which they depended.

European-Canadians had regular contact with the First Nations after that time, resulting in population losses in the early 20th century due to smallpox epidemics, social disruption and alcoholism.