Viatical settlements grew in popularity in the United States in the late 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic peaked.

He died of yellow fever at age 21 on October 16, 1878, during an epidemic in the Mississippi River Valley that caused 20, 000 deaths.

In the country of Guinea-Bissau, it was responsible for an epidemic that began in October 1994 and continued into 1996.

A koro epidemic struck Singapore in October 1967 for about ten days.

He died of yellow fever at age 21 on October 16, 1878, during an epidemic in the Mississippi River Valley that caused 20, 000 deaths.

* 1795 – Yellow fever epidemic kills 732 between July 19 and October 12, from a total population of about 50, 000.

In October 1970, an Afghan family went on pilgrimage from Afghanistan, where smallpox was endemic, to Mashhad in Iran, triggering a massive epidemic of smallpox in Iran that would last until September 1972.

The vaccine, originally developed in Norway and subject to considerable public controversy as recently as October 2007, was never released for widespread use in that country because the Norwegian epidemic was finishing before it was released.

* Was the West's methamphetamine epidemic allowed to happen ?, a five-part series published in The Oregonian in October 2004

" In October 1896, an epidemic of bubonic plague struck Bombay ( now Mumbai ) and the government asked Haffkine to help.

Rosa died in October 1919 during the influenza epidemic.

Soon after, in October of the same year, Maria Carolina's sister Maria Josepha, destined to marry Ferdinand IV of Naples as part of an alliance with Spain, died during a smallpox epidemic.

In October 1916 Pelletier and his wife arrived in Paris, France in the midst of World War I and the outbreak of a major flu epidemic.

The disease broke out in Tenochtitlan in late October ; the epidemic lasted sixty days, ending by early December.

Between 18 June and 29 October, the number of weekly dengue fever cases exceeded the epidemic threshold of 237.

) The first act was called for, owing to an alarm, lest plague should be imported from Poland and the Baltics ; the second act of 1721 was due to the disastrous prevalence of plague at Marseille and other places in Provence, France ; it was renewed in 1733 owing to a fresh outbreak of the malady on the continent of Europe, and again in 1743, owing to the disastrous epidemic at Messina.

In 1721, an epidemic of smallpox hit London and left the British Royal Family in fear.

Stimulated by a severe epidemic, variolation was first employed in North America in 1721.

In 1721, after a smallpox epidemic struck England, she had her three-year-old daughter inoculated by Charles Maitland, a physician who had been at the embassy in Turkey, and publicized the event.

One of the first documented " ideas " of vaccinations was in 1721 when Reverend Cotton Mather introduced inoculation to Boston, Massachusetts during the 1721 smallpox epidemic.

This, of course, does not eliminate from consideration for this purpose agents that are associated naturally with epidemic disease.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

This was done with full knowledge that there would be no epidemic.

It is like a mysterious epidemic which, starting first with Abigail and Parris, spreads inexorably with a dreadfully growing virulence through the whole town until all have been infected by it.

Rieux returns to the theme at the end of the novel, after the epidemic is over, when the depth of the feelings of exile and deprivation is clear from the overwhelming joy with which long parted lovers and family members greet each other.

Antimicrobial tests have also revealed significant reductions of MRSA as well as two strains of epidemic MRSA ( EMRSA-1 and EMRSA-16 ) on brass ( C24000 with 80 % Cu ) at room temperature ( 22 ° C ) within three hours.

The work was translated into English the following year, and with the cholera epidemic happening at that time, " The Black Death in the 14th century " gained widespread attention and the terms Schwarzer Tod and Black Death became more widely used in the German-and English-speaking worlds, respectively.

De Pizan's family life was threatened in 1390 when her husband, while in Beauvais on a mission with the king, suddenly died in an epidemic.

Coming of age was dealt with in Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ), race relationships were a theme in American History X ( 1998 ), and the AIDs epidemic and discrimination were the focus of Philadelphia ( 1993 ).

For example, Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty successfully vaccinated and presumably induced immunity with cowpox in his wife and two children during a smallpox epidemic in 1774, but it was not until Jenner's work some twenty years later that the procedure became widely understood.

Extreme weather conditions related to the El Niño cycle correlate with changes in the incidence of epidemic diseases.

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

His stepmother died during the epidemic and his father, as Minister of Supply in the city was closely associated with the government efforts.

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

As a direct result of these findings traps baited with this cheese have been utilized in strategic locations in some parts of Africa to combat the epidemic of malaria.

The film is partly a dark science fiction-tale of a future plague epidemic, and partly chronicles two filmmakers ( played by Lars von Trier and screenwriter Niels Vørsel ) preparing that film, with the two storylines ultimately colliding.

According to the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics ( now the Australian Bureau of Statistics ), " In common with other natives, the islanders are very susceptible to tuberculosis and influenza, and in 1921 an influenza epidemic caused the deaths of 230 islanders.

Rival gangs, such as the Gennas and the Aiellos, started wars with Capone, eventually leading to an epidemic of killings of epic proportions.

A previously rare strain of C. difficile that produces a more severe disease with increased levels of toxins is becoming epidemic, and may be connected to the use of fluoroquinolones.

Each film traces the evolution of the living dead epidemic in the United States and humanity's desperate attempts to cope with it.

The city rebounded, but the slump of American manufacturing in the second half of the 20th century, along with the nationwide epidemic of white flight from cities to suburbs, led to a depressed city by the time of the 1980s national recession.

There was no catastrophic epidemic or famine in England or Scotland in the 19th century – it was the first century in which a major epidemic did not occur throughout the whole country, with deaths per 1000 of population per year in England and Wales dropping from 21. 9 from 1848 – 54 to 17 in 1901 ( contrasting with, for instance, 5. 4 in 1971 ).