1549 and 1550. Malignant fever (petechial fever?) in the north of Germany.
1551. Dry and cold spring; hot and wet summer. Inundations, earthquakes, meteors, mock suns, great tempests, summer fogs.
1551. Malignant fever in Swabia: plague in Spain. Influenza.
1551. In the spring, stinking mists on the banks of the Severn.
1551. On the 15th of April outbreak of the fifth epidemic Sweating Fever in Shrewsbury on the Severn. It gradually spreads with stinking mists all over England, and on the 9th of July reaches London. The mortality is very considerable. Foreigners are unaffected, but Englishmen in foreign countries sicken with the English Sweating Sickness. The epidemic terminates on the 30th of September.
1552 and 1553. Malignant fever in Germany and Switzerland.
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