Election Years Virus Outbreaks

The post included the outbreak of killer disease sars in 2002 swine flu in 2009 2010 and ebola in 2014.

Election years virus outbreaks. And much like covid 19 the zika virus started late in the year leading up to an election year and bled over into it. The who reports the zika virus outbreak began in 2015 and continued into 2016. Disease outbreaks by year 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 health emergency dashboard public health events and emergencies interactive map.

Additionally several of these outbreaks had little impact in the united states despite the claim connecting each one. The claim lists the diseases sars avian flu swine flu mers ebola zika and the coronavirus. Every election year has a disease reads one.

However the outbreak was first reported in february 2003 about 21 months before election day and contained by july 2003 according to the world health organization who. A claim on social media alleges that every election year has had a major disease outbreak. Zika cases were initially reported in 2015 presidential election year of.

Many tweets and facebook posts are making the false claim that there is a trend of disease outbreaks matched to elections. Yes there probably was an election held somewhere in the world all of those years. This is a list of the largest known epidemics including pandemics caused by an infectious disease widespread non communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included an epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time.

The year linked to sars a disease caused by a strain of coronavirus is 2004 when incumbent republican president george w. Additionally several of these outbreaks had little impact in the united states despite the claim connecting each one.