====== English Sweating Sickness ======

>The English sweating sickness caused five devastating epidemics between 1485 and 1551, England was hit hardest, but on one occasion also mainland Europe, with mortality rates between 30% and 50%. 
>The Picardy sweat emerged about 150 years after the English sweat disappeared, in 1718, in France. It caused 196 localized outbreaks and apparently in its turn disappeared in 1861. __Both diseases have been the subject of numerous attempts to define their origin, but so far all efforts were in vain.__ 
>Although both diseases occurred in different time frames and were geographically not overlapping, a common denominator could be what we know today as hantavirus infections."\\ \\ Source : [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917436/|Viruses ]]journal 2014 Jan; 6(1): 151–171.\\

As well as the uncertainty about the origin and cause of the disease, the number of mortalities is also unclear - but in one outbreak alone (London 1845) at least 15,000 people died.

As mentioned above, modern-day hantavirus infections (e.g.  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hantavirus_pulmonary_syndrome|HPS]]  or HFRS) have some similarities.