Plagues & Pestilences

Ebola epidemic:

The epidemic began in Guinea in December 2013.

It then spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal.

Bubonic Plague:

23 July 2014 Parts of Chinese city quarantined as resident dies of BUBONIC PLAGUE

    Around 30,000 people from Yumen have been sent to quarantine zones.

    A 38-year-old victim infected by a wild marmot and died last week.

    151 people who came into contact with the victim are also being checked.

    City is now surrounded by police roadblocks and emergency services.

Chinese officials have sealed off large parts of a city after a resident who was bitten by a rodent died of bubonic plague.

The 38-year-old victim from the city of Yumen in Gansu province was infected BUBONIC PLAGUE and began suffering from a fever later that day.

Around 30,000 residents have now been told they cannot leave and police at roadblocks on the perimeter of the city.

It said 151 people who came into direct contact with the victim have also been placed in quarantine and are being analysed by epidemic prevention teams deployed around the city.

 

Dengue Fever outbreak:

Sep 6 2014 Tokyo Japan. 22 sickened.

Sep 25, 2014 South China.

The number of dengue fever cases in south China's Guangdong Province had reached more than 7,000 as of Wednesday, The infections have also resulted in three deaths.

Enterovirus D-68:

Sep 8 2014 USA. 1000 sickened

It’s Unprecedented': Mysterious Respiratory Illness Sickens At Least 1,000 Children Across U.S.

A mysterious respiratory virus, thought to be a rare and much more serious variant of the common cold, is affecting hundreds of children in at least 10 states across the country, causing symptoms of such severity that an average of 15 percent of those treated for the illness have ended up in intensive care.

Chikungunya Virus:

Chikungunya Virus Now Spreading To More U.S. States.
Jun 14, 2014

More states are reporting cases of a potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus called Chikungunya, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue warnings to health departments across the United States.

Dominican Rebublic. 500,000 sickened.

Sep 23 2014

The mosquito-borne virus known as chikungunya has sickened nearly 500,000 people in the Dominican Republic, including 109 newborn babies, an official with the Caribbean country's health ministry said Friday.

The virus was transmitted to the newborns by their mothers, who had the illness when they gave birth, said Carmen Adames, who is coordinating the Health Ministry's response to the outbreak. None of the infants died, she said.

West Nile Virus:

Oct 2, 2014 USA

The Tennessee state health department confirmed the first human case of West Nile Virus 2 deaths of the summer.