The Asiatic cholera was the first of several cholera pandemics to sweep through Asia and Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

He died after commanding the Prussian army's efforts to construct a cordon sanitaire to contain the great cholera outbreak in 1831 ( the first time cholera had appeared in Europe, causing a continent-wide panic ).

The Russian-born bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine developed the first cholera vaccine around 1900.

The first death due to cholera occurred in 1866, but by then Elizabeth had already opened St. Mary ’ s Dispensary for Women and Children, at 69 Seymour Place.

One of the first examples of geographic methods being used for purposes other than to describe and theorise the physical properties of the earth is John Snow's map of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak.

He re-established military unity, bringing an end to the second phase of the civil war ; re-organised the military, which was then able to reconquer territory lost to the Ottoman military during the civil wars, and introduced the first modern quarantine system in Greece, which brought epidemics like typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery under control for the first time since the start of the War of Independence ;

The first form of government was a conservancy board established in 1846 to control the spread of cholera in the city.

Had little effect in Europe because of advances in public health, but Russia was badly affected again ( more than 500, 000 people dying of cholera during the first quarter of the 20th century ).

The first attenuated vaccine developed by Louis Pasteur was for fowl cholera and was tested on poultry in 1878.

1849 was the first year of large scale cholera epidemics in the United States, and thousands are thought to have died along the trail on their way to California — most buried in unmarked graves in Kansas and Nebraska.

V. cholerae was first isolated as the cause of cholera by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini in 1854, but his discovery was not widely known until Robert Koch, working independently 30 years later, publicized the knowledge and the means of fighting the disease.

One of the first epidemiological investigations was that of Snow in 19th century London, who traced the spread of cholera to contaminated water supplies.

On 12 February 1832, the first case of cholera was reported in London at Limehouse.

Nicholson, state senator, U. S. Senator, and Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court ; Sterling Marlin, NASCAR driver ; Dr. Marion Dorsett, inventor of the serum to control hog cholera ; Fran McKee, first female line officer to hold the rank of rear admiral in the U. S. Navy ; Lyman T Johnson, civil rights movement ; and Raphael Benjamin West former Nashville mayor and Civil Rights ally, noted architect James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. and John Harlan Willis, United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the Medal of Honor — for his actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

Other than his thesis, his first publications covered a number of travel discourses which appeared in the Stockholms Dagblad newspaper, and which described his experiences of relief work during the cholera epidemic in Naples.

However, Koch abandoned the universalist requirement of the first postulate altogether when he discovered asymptomatic carriers of cholera and, later, of typhoid fever.

For example, Koch was well aware that in the case of cholera, the causal agent, Vibrio cholerae, could be found in both sick and healthy people, invalidating his first postulate.

By the end of this first year, the crew had contracted cholera, and they were quarantined for six months.

It came into use during one of the largest outbreaks of cholera in the country and during its first year it saw over 400 burials related to that disease.

That same year, B ' nai B ' rith sponsored its first overseas philanthropic project raising $ 4, 522 to aid the victims of a cholera epidemic in what was then Palestine.

Another prominent member was Honinbo Shusaku ( 秀策, 1829-1862 ), who was heir to be head of the school, but died of cholera first.

The third pandemic erupted in 1839, persisted until 1856, extended to North Africa, and reached South America, for the first time specifically infringing upon Brazil.

* 1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) produce a six-stage classification that describes the process by which a novel influenza virus moves from the first few infections in humans through to a pandemic.

During this pandemic, the United States saw its first outbreak: the San Francisco plague of 1900 – 1904.

* The first influenza pandemic was recorded in 1580 and since then influenza pandemics occurred every 10 to 30 years.

In 2006, the organization endorsed the world's first official HIV / AIDS Toolkit for Zimbabwe, which formed the basis for a global prevention, treatment and support plan to fight the AIDS pandemic.

Because of this, epidemic or pandemic diseases, which depend on a constant influx of humans who have not developed an immune response, tended to burn out after their first run through a population.

As a result, no Cup champion was crowned for the first time since the flu pandemic in 1919.

The second wave of the 1918 pandemic was much deadlier than the first.

Similarities between a reconstruction of the virus and avian viruses, combined with the human pandemic preceding the first reports of influenza in swine, led researchers to conclude the influenza virus jumped directly from birds to humans, and swine caught the disease from humans.

As the world's population is almost annihilated by a mysterious pandemic, accidentally unleashed by a Chinese scientist, the crisis is first seen through the eyes of two characters-Jenny Richards, a young working woman in London and Abby Grant, a middle-class corporate wife living a privileged existence in a nearby commuter village.

A Cholera pandemic devastated Europe between 1829 and 1851, and was first fought by the use of what Foucault called " social medicine ", which focused on flux, circulation of air, location of cemeteries, etc.

The influenza pandemic reached Hokianga in September 1918, and remote Waiotemarama was one of the first settlements to succumb.

It was also the first episode in an American children's animated series to directly deal with the AIDS-HIV pandemic.

The first hockey death from the influenza pandemic was Ottawa's Hamby Shore in October, 1918.

It was the first time since 1919 when a Spanish flu pandemic canceled the playoffs that the Stanley Cup was not awarded.

As a result of the lockout, no Stanley Cup champion was crowned for the first time since the flu pandemic in 1919.

Haemophilus influenzae, formerly called Pfeiffer's bacillus or Bacillus influenzae, is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium first described in 1892 by Richard Pfeiffer during an influenza pandemic.

The Times newspaper was actually the first source to sound alarm regarding this new possible pandemic.

Swine influenza was first proposed to be a disease related to human flu during the 1918 flu pandemic, when pigs became ill at the same time as humans.

This notice has been recognized as the first published report marking the official start of the AIDS pandemic and as " the first report on AIDS in the medical literature ".

In addition, in the mid-1990s the first AIDS " drug cocktails " marked a dramatic turning point in the pandemic so that a positive diagnosis was no longer considered a death sentence.

His father, Wilson Carswell, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, diagnosed the first confirmed cases of HIV / AIDS, in Uganda in the early 1980s, and was instrumental in drawing the world's attention to the unfolding pandemic.