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For centuries, women around the world have become increasingly aware of the inequities present in societal expectations and representation, particularly in the workplace. While feminist movements have contributed to significant gender equity reforms globally, African feminists continue to face unique challeng…
The outbreak of the widespread Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Nigeria was so unexpected that it was referred to as “black swan” months after the first confirmed case. Although, the emergence of the Ebola virus disease was first recorded in 1976 between 1979 and 1994 there were no cases indicated and …
HIV/AIDS Pandemic (somewhere around 1980-2012): The HIV/AIDS Pandemic was a horrific tragedy to have occurred. First identified in Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, HIV/AIDS has truly proven itself as a global pandemic, killing more than 36 million people since 1981. Currently there are bet…
In 1576, in southern and central Mexico highlands, near modern day Puebla city (4) there was the emergence of an epidemic that would be known as the Cocoliztli epidemic. Between the years 1576 to 1580 it would kill around 2-2.5 million in total, around 50% of the Mexican population, just 800,000 being in t…
There were 4912 cases of cholera in Liverpool in 1832, leading to 1523 fatalities (Old Mersey Times, 2002). There were further outbreaks in 1849, 1854 and 1866. In June, 1832, the city of Liverpool (in common with most British towns) was in the grips of the first great cholera epidemic to attack the country. The …
In 1878 Memphis, Tennessee suffered the deadliest yellow fever epidemic of any city in the United States. (as measured by per capita deaths, Wrenn 5) Although this was the fifth yellow fever epidemic in Memphis since 1828, it was the most devastating, prompting an energetic yet ineffective response, and …
The origins of syphilis are still debated. Traditionally, most experts believe that it arrived in Europe from the New World with the return of Columbus to Castile in 1493. However, recent DNA tests now question this. The word 'syphilis' did not exist until the publication of Girolama Fracastoro's poem of that name in 1…
Welcome to the open channel associated with the edX course: Disease, Climate Shocks & Wellbeing: A Long History of Social Response to Crisis. If you haven’t checked out the course, you can find it here: In the course, we looked at series of case studies to understand how dramatic events such as epidemics of dis…