THE RECENT EPIDEMIC AT HARROW.

On the Recent Epidemic of Diphtheria

The history of the recent epidemic best commences with the years 1848-49.* Prior to this period, diphtheria had been occasionally observed as a sporadic affection in various parts of the kingdom;?and in the middle of the last century the disease, known by other designations,. had prevailed in an epidemic form in several districts, as well as in France, Italy, Sweden, Holland, Germany, and North...

Chikungunya: Evolutionary history and recent epidemic spread.

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has a long history of emergence into urban transmission cycles from its ancestral, enzootic, sylvatic foci in Sub-Saharan Africa, most recently spreading to the Americas beginning in 2013. Since 2004, reemergence has resulted in millions of cases of severe, debilitating and often chronic arthralgia on five continents. Here, we review this history based on phylogenetic ...

A Sketch of the Recent Cholera Epidemic in Syria

were reported to have occurred in Hamah, 35 deg. lat. N., long. 37 deg. E.?a town of 40,000 inhabitants, situated on the banks of the Orontes, and lying on the high road between Aleppo and Damascus. How the disease should have appeared in so inland a place without its being known to exist in any part of Turkey or any of the provinces contiguous to it was a mystery, and the first reports were dis-

Could the Recent Zika Epidemic Have Been Predicted?

Given knowledge at the time, the recent 2015-2016 zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic probably could not have been predicted. Without the prior knowledge of ZIKV being already present in South America, and given the lack of understanding of key epidemiologic processes and long-term records of ZIKV cases in the continent, the best related prediction could be carried out for the potential risk of a generi...

Some Observations Concerning the Recent Typhoid Epidemic in Calcutta