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  • Agramont said nothing concerning the term epidemia, but he extensively developed what he meant by pestilencia.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • Smithfield denies any connection to the outbreak, but La Marcha in Veracruz headlined a story "Granjas Carroll, causa de epidemia en La Gloria".

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Smithfield denies any connection to the outbreak, but La Marcha in Veracruz headlined a story "Granjas Carroll, causa de epidemia en La Gloria".

    "Containment is not a feasible option" 2009

  • Note 3: Sherburn Cook, "The Incidence and Significance of Disease among the Aztecs and Related Tribes," The Hispanic American Historical Review, 26 (1946), 332; Carlos Viesca T. "Hambruna y epidemia en Anáhuac (1450 – 1454) en la época de Moctezuma Illhuicamina," in Ensayos sobre la historia de las epidemias en México, ed. Enrique Florescano and Elsa Malvido (México: Instituto Méxicano del Seguro Social, 1982), p. 163. back

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Escrito por el presbítero Cayetano de Cabrera y Quintero para conmemorar el final de la funesta epidemia de matlazáhuatl que asoló a la Nueva España entre 1736 y 1738.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • An article in a Vera Cruz paper, La Marcha, declares: "Granjas Carroll, causa de epidemia en La Gloria."

    Josh Nelson: The Politics of a Potential Pandemic: From Sebelius to Smithfield 2009

  • Diáriamente, somos confrontados com ameaças várias que vão do mero atentado terrorista à epidemia global, isto sem esquecer algum encontro fortuito com um buraco negro ou um asteroide viajante do espaço cósmico em rota de colisão com o nosso mundo e não se esqueçam das estrelas que se transformam em novas, das explosões de raios gama, das galáxias canibais e das menos verosímeis mas possíveis invasões alienígenas.

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • Quando se sabe que metade do tráfego de e-mail é spam, percebe-se que estamos perante uma verdadeira epidemia.

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • Será que poderemos classificar o alastrar dos telemóveis como uma epidemia?

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • This abstemiousness has ever proved a faithful friend; it carried me triumphant through the epidemia at Malaga, where death made such havoc about the beginning of the present century; and it has since befriended me in many a fit of sickness brought on by exposure to the noon-day sun, to the dews of night, to the pelting shower and unwholesome food.

    Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

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