Common Vehicle Spread
The term common vehicle spread describes the mode of transmission of infectious pathogens from a source that is common to all the cases of a specific disease, by means of a medium, or "vehicle," such as… More »
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History of Epidemics and Plagues (October 2001) ... You should pay special attention to the number of common-source epidemic diseases that are due to contamination of water and food by-products of human excretion. Hikers and campers can purchase water filters that are sufficiently fine that most of the nonviral...
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With increasing worries about Swine Flu, it is important to put the outbreak into proper perspective and review the historical record on epidemic diseases. ... Also known as the Spanish Flu (although it is likely that it began in the United States), the Great Influenza was most likely the deadliest plague in history.
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This paper, based on the research fundings of one part of the Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) project 'Epidemics and Mortality in the pre-Industrial City' (4) which examined the epidemic of 1665 in London, will survey some of the approaches that can be employed to explore the social topography of disease...
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Part of the online series Epidemic Disease in London published by the Centre for Metropolitan History ... The mortality patterns of these epidemic diseases as recorded in the Bills, and the meaning of the categorizations used in the Bills, have as yet received little attention from historians.
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Fighting the Spread of Epidemic Diseases ... Images from the History of Public Health Service Home Page; Exhibition and Public Programs Home Page; History of Medicine Home Page...
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As cities became crowded, they also became the nesting places of waterborne, insect borne, and skin -to-skin infectious diseases that spurted out unchecked and seemingly at will. Typhus was most common, reported Thomas Sydenham, England's first great physician, who lived in the 17th century and studied early history.
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Vittoria Colizza , Alain Barrat , Marc Barthélemy and Alessandro Vespignani ... BMC Medicine 2007, 5:34doi:10.1186/1741-7015-5-3 ... Pre-publication versions of this article and reviewers' reports...
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