Science and Medicine

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever. In addition, cholera emerged as an epidemic threat and spread worldwide in six pandemics in the nineteenth century.

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• ▸Cordelia Fine
• ▸Female genital mutilation
• ▸Cold War tensions and the polio vaccine

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