Events Database

25 historical macro events · 2010–today

Filtered by:epidemics✕ clear
DateEvent
Jul 27, 12Five infant deaths signal serious UK whooping cough outbreak
Jul 15, 12Can GM mosquitoes rid the world of a major killer?
May 14, 12Hand sanitisers: saved by the gel?
Apr 6, 12Malaria: global battle to contain disease set back as powerful drugs lose potency
Mar 5, 12Was colonialism to blame for the spread of HIV in Africa?
Feb 15, 12Brush with the Black Death: how artists painted through the plague
Oct 24, 11America's child abuse epidemic
Jun 25, 11Diabetes epidemic affecting 350m – and western fast food is to blame
Feb 15, 11Public health worries after foot and mouth epidemic in South Korea
Jan 1, 11Children's flu epidemic feared by doctors as virus escalates
Dec 28, 10Ministers accused of putting under-fives at risk as fears rise of flu epidemic
Dec 28, 10Fears of flu epidemic grow as experts urge people to get jabs
Nov 22, 10Haiti's cholera epidemic caused by weather, say scientists
Nov 17, 10Haiti's president warns cholera violence will not be tolerated
Nov 12, 10Haiti cholera death toll approaches 800 with rapid increase feared
Nov 12, 10Why Haiti's cholera epidemic may last for years
Nov 9, 10Haiti cholera epidemic reaches Port-au-Prince
Oct 24, 10Haiti cholera outbreak reaches capital city
Sep 7, 10Young gay men fuelling HIV epidemic, study warns
Sep 5, 10Legalise drugs and a worldwide epidemic of addiction will follow
Aug 16, 10Time Warner centre succumbs to New York bedbug epidemic
Jun 20, 10Siberian tiger threatened by mystery disease
May 11, 10Obesity: understanding the UK epidemic
Mar 26, 10Healthier sweet foods urged in battle against obesity epidemic
Feb 5, 10Congo conflict: 'The Terminator' lives in luxury while peacekeepers look on