Tag "history"

Plague of Marseille (1720)

The plague of Marseille from 1720 is a historical episode marking, always present in the collective memory of the Marseillais. It is the last outbreak of plague registered in France. The Grand-Saint-Antoine, a boat from the Levant (the Syria region), docking in Marseilles on 25 may 1720 is the source of the epidemic. Indeed, its cargo consisting of fabrics ...

1918 Flu

The 1918 flu, nicknamed “Spanish flu”, is due to a (H1N1) strain particularly virulent and contagious flu that has spread in 1918-1919 pandemic. This pandemic has made 30 million deaths according to the Pasteur Institute, and up to 100 million according to some recent re-evaluations. It would be the black plague pandemic the most deadly in the history ...