sweating sickness

contagious disease of humans that struck England and Europe between 1485 and 1551
MedicalCondition disease Q920766
sweating sickness
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sweating sickness

Summary

sweating sickness is a disease[1]. It ranks in the top 0.5% of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (120 views/month, #4 of 806).[2]

Key Facts

  • sweating sickness is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • sweating sickness's instance of is recorded as disease[4].
  • sweating sickness's instance of is recorded as infectious disease[5].
  • sweating sickness took place at England[6].
  • sweating sickness's Commons category is recorded as Sweating sickness[7].
  • sweating sickness began on 1485[8].
  • sweating sickness ended on 1551[9].
  • sweating sickness's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[10].
  • sweating sickness's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • sweating sickness's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • sweating sickness's described by source is recorded as The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[13].
  • sweating sickness's health specialty is recorded as infectious diseases[14].

Why It Matters

sweating sickness ranks in the top 0.5% of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (120 views/month, #4 of 806).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Pruna.ar · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'az', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', '
    Sitelink count → 31
    Instance of → disease, infectious disease
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q18123741]]"
  2. 7d ago · فيصل · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q113466993]]"
  3. 4w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United Kingdom
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/50895|batch #50895]]: because of P276"
  4. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    End time → —
    Start time → +1485-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Health specialty → infectious diseases
    Instance of → disease, infectious disease
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007551006405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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