He had unearthed Stephens's letters in a New Jersey farmhouse and he discovered Stephens's unmarked grave in an old cemetery on the east side of New York, where the great traveller had been hastily buried during a cholera epidemic.

" By circa 1700, smallpox had become among the most devastating of epidemic diseases circulating in the Atlantic world.

First came oidium and then the phylloxera epidemic would take its toll on the vineyards of Chianti just as they had ravaged vineyards across the rest of Europe.

He had experience with the epidemic, referring to it as very long lasting, and describes its symptoms and his treatment of it.

During the negotiations Himmler falsely claimed that the crematoria had been built to deal with the dead from a typhus epidemic.

In 1919 The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Epidemic concluded that there had been no epidemic of pneumonic influenza in Western Samoa before the arrival of the ' SS Talune ' from Auckland on 7 November 1918.

However, the AIDS epidemic has had a major impact on the Thai population.

By autumn, the epidemic had spread throughout the Balkans, possibly through contact with Venetian ports along the Adriatic Sea.

Heinlein also assumes that the Russians are running China, " The Russian bureaucrats had even cleaned up China to the point where bubonic plague and typhus were endemic rather than epidemic .".

Just as the industry was recovering through the use of the sulfur-based Bordeaux mixture fungicide, the phylloxera epidemic that had plagued France and other European wine regions reached the island.

In Canada, the typhus epidemic of 1847 killed more than 20 000 people died from 1847 to 1848, mainly Irish immigrants in fever sheds and other forms of quarantine, who had contracted the disease aboard coffin ships.

Johann Georg died shortly after in Tübingen, where he had been brought, of an epidemic illness, probably Cholera or the Plague.

During World War II he had been responsible at the German Supreme High Command institute for virus and typhus research in Kraków to produce Rudolf Weigl's vaccine against epidemic typhus.

The European and Asian lifestyle included a long history of sharing close quarters with domesticated animals such as cows, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, and various domesticated fowl, which had resulted in epidemic diseases unknown in the Americas.

* In the apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later ( 2002 ), directed by Danny Boyle, the newspaper was one of the last printed papers in the UK, informing Londoners about a deadly epidemic sweeping the country as well as that the city was to be evacuated and the Prime Minister had declared a state of emergency.

In his 1989 Network World article, Joe Mohen wrote the practice had become a " vaporware epidemic ", and blamed the press for not investigating claims by developers.

During this period, an epidemic of feline leukemia virus occurred, and many wild cats apparently had a natural immunity to the disease.

In August 1227, Frederick set out for the Holy Land from Brindisi, but was forced to return when he was struck down by an epidemic that had broken out.

The Cherokee were given used blankets from a hospital in Tennessee where an epidemic of small pox had broken out.

Small Pox, Measles and other diseases the Indians had no immunity for caused widespread epidemic and death.

The request came from the Moroccan prince Abd al-Malik who had been saved by Bérard during an epidemic in Constantinople, and wished to retain Bérard in his service.

Although 800 people died during this epidemic, fewer than had died of tuberculosis in the same year, cholera visited again in 1848 and 1858.

The Kingston General Hospital site also held the remains of 1, 400 Irish immigrants who had died in Kingston in fever sheds along the waterfront, during the typhus epidemic of 1847, while fleeing the Great Famine.

The Algonquians were a peaceful, agricultural group who planted and stored corn, but whose numbers had been greatly reduced by a massive epidemic, probably smallpox, in the early 17th century.

In order to suppress the epidemic and prevent its spread, it was decided to take drastic action, accordingly a Special Plague Committee, with jurisdiction over Pune city, its suburbs and Pune cantonment was appointed under the Chairmanship of W. C. Rand, I. C. S., Assistant Collector of Pune by way of a government order dated 8 March 1897.

Pre-Spanish population estimates are deemed unreliable, however, a drastic population decline occurred after 1854 due to a smallpox epidemic after European contact.

They were now joined by farmers, who resented drastic governmental measures required to cut out diseased cacao trees in order to control an epidemic, and by many others who were unhappy that the end of the war had not been followed by economic improvements .< iesha >

The ecological collapse which followed has been variously attributed to overpopulation, slave traders, European diseases ( including a smallpox epidemic which killed so many so quickly, the dead were left unburied and a tuberculosis epidemic wiped out a quarter of the population ), social upheaval ), understand that food supply can vary and also that other factors in the environment can alter humans ' need for food.

A smallpox epidemic, along with social and political opposition, brought about the college's closure in 1860.

In the south, a yellow fever epidemic in the 1940s took many lives and caused a high degree of social disruption.

Conversos could be found in various roles within the Iberian kingdoms, from bishop to royal mistress, showing a degree of general acceptance, yet they became targets of occasional pogroms during times of extreme social tension ( as during an epidemic and after an earthquake ).

Among social issues first reported in the press of mainland China include the AIDS epidemic in Henan province, the unsafe state of mines in mainland China.

Chinese tabloids have been crucial in breaking some of the major stories on social crises facing mainland China including the AIDS epidemic in Henan, the dangers of coal mining, and the corruption inherent in the system of custody and repatriation.

Schmidt posited that AIDS was not an actual disease, but rather an example of " epidemic hysteria " in which groups of people are subconsciously acting out social conflicts.

There were a series of epidemic outbursts in 1948, 1955, 1966, and 1974, whenever there was social tension or impending disaster, followed by the last widespread episode in 1984 – 1985 and a much smaller outbreak in 1987.

The films also frequently referenced the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, often commenting on the failure of the Ronald Reagan administration to respond to the AIDS epidemic and the social stigma experienced by the gay community.

In turn, although social pressure to lose weight has adverse effects on some individuals who do not need to lose weight, those adverse effects are outweighed by that social pressure's positive effect on the overall population, without which the recent increases in obesity and associated health and social problems ( described in both popular and academic parlance as an " obesity epidemic ") would be even more severe than they already are.

In 2002, Shriver was a co-founder – with U2 lead singer Bono – of DATA ( Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa ), a multinational, non-government organization whose purpose is to obtain social equality and justice for Africa through debt relief ; adjust trade rules which burden Africa ; eliminate the African AIDS epidemic ; and strengthen democracy with more accountability by the wealthiest nations and African leaders with transparency towards the people.

Fortune described The Tipping Point as “ a fascinating book that makes you see the world in a different way .” The Daily Telegraph called it “ a wonderfully offbeat study of that little-understood phenomenon, the social epidemic .” Reviewing Blink, the Baltimore Sun dubbed Gladwell “ the most original American journalist since the young Tom Wolfe .” Farhad Manjoo at Salon described the book as “ a real pleasure.

Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows.

" Puritanism … and the epidemic of evangelism of the mid-eighteenth century, had created challenges to the traditional notions of social stratification ” by preaching that the Bible taught that all men are equal, that the true value of a man lies in his moral behavior, not his class, and that all men can be saved.

Viral marketing and viral advertising refers to marketing techniques that seek to exploit pre-existing social networks to produce exponential increases in brand awareness, through processes similar to the spread of an epidemic.

These include global climate change, natural hazards, healthcare, the AIDS epidemic, pandemic influenza, international drug trafficking, homeland security, nuclear weapons, and nuclear energy, waste and social injustice.

It assists countries in fighting old diseases that have re-emerged, such as cholera, dengue and tuberculosis, and new diseases such as the spreading AIDS epidemic, providing technical cooperation including education and social communications support, promoting work with non-governmental organizations, and support for programs to prevent transmission of communicable diseases.

The Liverpool Cholera Riots of 1832 demonstrate the complex social responses to epidemic disease, as well as the fragile interface between the public and the medical profession.

Accounts of the Athenian plague graphically describe the social consequences of an epidemic.

Yet, other fans accuse Roddenberry of hypocrisy by allowing studio executives such as Berman and Leonard Maizlish ( Roddenberry's lawyer ) to order rewrites of the script that removed the gay characters, and then were still nervous about the public reaction to an episode that offered a social critique of the hysteria that surrounded the AIDS epidemic.

He also coined the concept " inadequate learning syndrome " ( ILS ) and argued it was a more important social problem than the AIDS epidemic ( Humphreys, 1988 ).