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The Nine Epidemies (Mtl: "B'olon Okanil") is the name given to nine different outbreaks of infectious diseases that struck the Divine Kingdom during the last decades of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. They participate to a general climate of social and political turmoil during this period, taking places during the Great Arms Race, the Belfro-Mutulese war of 1911, the Belfro-Mutulese War of 1928, and the Orientalist Regeneration. The Nine Epidemies are generally divided into three categories : the Three Fevers (Mtl: "Ox Katan") (The Yellow fever of 1897, Swamp Fever of 1910, and the Black fever of 1940), the Three Dengues (Mtl: "Ox Tok'") (of 1901, 1933, and 1950), and the Three Influenzas (Mtl: "Ox Yabil") (Of 1889, the Mutulese Flu of 1915, and the Reze Flu of 1940).
History
Influenza of 1889
The 1889 Flu was a deadly epidemy that affected around 15% of the population of the Mutul at the time. Researchers have managed to identify the virus as a subtype H3 of the Influenza A, possibly the H3N8 subtype which may have been carried to the Mutul through infected dogs from Scipia. It is estimated that between 250,000 and 500,000 people died of the Flu thourough the year, 0,2% of the Divine Kingdom's total population at the time. It is generally remembered as the first of the "Three Influenzas", but is obscured by the following Mutulese Flu which killed around 2% of the total population of the Mutul.
Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1897
The Yellow fever probably first appeared in Oxidentale in the aftermath of the Rezeses expeditions to Scipia during the 9th and 10th centuries AD. The relative isolation of communities at the time limited the spread of the disease, which mean that it only became noteworthy in the Mutul following the establishment of Mutulese Ochran and was first called "Xekik", "blood vomit". The Outbreak of 1897 was especially deadly, affecting not only sugar plantations and western portuary cities, but almost every major settlements of the country as well, once again helped by modern transports and rail networks. It was the last large-scale outbreak of the disease as afterward, extensive sanitary measures were taken, until the fever was reduced to pocket of jungles and other isolated areas where it survived in population of howler monkeys and other primates from where it periodically spread in small outbreaks to this day.