Vérole

For Vérole, a total of 2 epidemic events are known so far. It is a disease.

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Page	DateStart date of the disease.	SummarySummary of the disease event	OriginalOriginal text	TranslationEnglish translation of the text	ReferenceReference(s) to literature	Reference translationReference(s) to the translation
1335-06-00-Florence	1 June 1335 JL		Di grande corruzione di vaiuolo che fue in Firenze. Nel detto anno e istate fue in Firenze una grande corruzione di male di vaiuolo, che tutti i fanciulli di Firenze e del contado ne fuoro maculati diversamente; per la quale malattia più di IIIm ne falliro per morte in Firenze tra maschi e femine. Dissesi per alcuni strolagi e naturali, che la congiunzione di Marte e di Saturno nel segno de la Libra, e il Giove allor opposizione nell’Ariete, ne fu cagione	Concerning the great outbreak of smallpox that occurred in Florence. In the said year and summer, there was in Florence a great outbreak of the disease of Variola, by which all the children of Florence and the surrounding countryside were marked in various ways; and because of this illness, more than three thousand died in Florence, both male and female. It was said by certain astrologers and natural philosophers that the cause was the conjunction of Mars and Saturn in the sign of Libra, and Jupiter being then in opposition in Aries.	Giovanni Villani 1990, Bd. 3, p. 79	Martin Bauch / ChatGPT 5.2
1422-07-00-Paris	July 1422 JL	Epidemic of 'vérole' in Paris, especially among children who could die or become blind	Item, cette année fit merveilleusement chaud en juin et en juillet (...) Et pour cette grande chaleur fut si grande année d'enfants malades de la vérole qu'oncques de vie d'homme on eût vu, et tant en étaient couverts qu'on ne les connaissait; et plusiseurs grands hommes l'avaient, espécialement les Anglais, et disait-on que le roi d'Angleterre en eut sa part. Et est vrai que moult de petits enfants en furent si agrevés que les uns en mouroient, les autres en perdaient la vue corporelle	This year was terribly hot and warm in June and in July (...) Because of this heat, a lot of children were struck by the 'vérole', as never seen before. They were so covered with spots, that it was even difficult to recognize them. Several adults were ill too, especially among English people, and it was said that the king of England too. Truly, a lot of children were so ill, that some of them died and some other became blind.	Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris 1990, p. 190	Translation by Thomas Labbé

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