That was the first epidemic.
It was the first epidemic of mental illness, but no one recognized it as such, neither the patients nor the doctors.
But what really made this year deadly was that the first epidemic of the sweating sickness fell on England, killing tens of thousands of men and women.
The first epidemic in which the disease and the causative agent were characterized occurred in 1952 53 in an outbreak on the Makonde plateau in Africa.
Some potatoes would have carried the right genes to make it through the epidemic, and more of the resistant varieties could have been planted in the years following the first epidemic.
During a podcast, the author of "Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change" talks about the growing worldwide threat of this disease and the urgent need for more research into treatment and prevention.
The most heartening reward for the ordinary American parent is the fact that this is the first epidemic disease to be conquered by research financed entirely by public funds.
PAGE 23 Flight 1549 Tests Response Network A23 OBITUARIES WILLIAM T. CLOSE, 84 An American surgeon, he played an important role in controlling the first epidemic of the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever in central Africa.
After the first epidemic that broke out in Constantinople, the eastern Roman Empire, the pandemic spread widely to the entire Mediterranean and central Europe, as north as Finland51, killing tens of millions until the mid-8th century52.
The virus has showed how hard it can be to stop an outbreak and how, despite some progress, the world is still ill-prepared for a formidable new pathogen.Ebola is not the first epidemic to catch the world off-guard.
The first epidemic of V. cholerae O139 occurred in 1992 in Bangladesh and India and then it spread rapidly to other countries in Southeast Asia [10].
