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Anoka County 2019 Multi-Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Plan 94 residential and commercial buildings in Anoka County is low. The list of Dams within the planning area are included in Appendix B. 102B4.3.1.2 Epidemics/Pandemics/Vectors Pandemics (World Wide epidemics) have occurred three times in the world’s human population. Anoka County has experienced minor cases of infectious diseases over the last 50 years that have been considered isolated occurrences or minor exposures. Anoka County has experienced several pandemic/epidemic incidents since 1918. The impacts are multifaceted and include public health and financial impacts. • The 1918-1919 Spanish Flu caused the highest number of deaths. India had 16 million deaths. The U.S. had 675,000 deaths. In England 230,000 died. In Germany 225,000 and in France 166,000 perished. Worldwide, the estimated fatalities were 20 million to 50 million. During the Spanish Flu pandemic, Spain closed its government. New York City closed its port and trains did not run. The British Navy did not sail for three weeks. • The 1957-58 Asian Flu was identified in February 1957 in China. By June, it had crossed the Pacific and entered the U.S. Globally, it caused a million deaths. In the U.S., 70,000 persons died. It was a Type A virus. • The 1968-69 Hong Kong Flu caused four million deaths worldwide and 34,000 deaths in the U.S. It was a Type A virus. • The 2009 H1N1 Flu was identified in Anoka County with 49 confirmed cases. Epidemics in Minnesota were major killers in the 1700s and 1800s. The worst culprits were smallpox, polio, influenza, measles, and cholera, and yellow fever. In 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic struck Minnesota, 10,000 Minnesotans died, over twenty percent in the Twin Cities. Small towns were infected as severely as larger cities. In the twin cities in 1935, a failure of the chlorination units at the public water supply plant resulted in a serious typhoid epidemic with 213 cases and 7 deaths. In 1979 an outbreak of Red Measles occurred, over 200 cases were reported. In 1952 there were 20 cases of polio reported in Anoka County. In July 2005, officials with Anoka County closed Coon Lake Beach in the City of Columbus for four days following an E. Coli outbreak that sickened at least four children. Anoka County has developed a mass clinic plan to administer vaccine and other necessary drugs in the event of an epidemic or pandemic event. This plan is tested once every five years and the next exercise will occur in 2020. The drill occurs during the county’s participation in the Strategic National Stockpile drill and has been revised to remediate weaknesses discovered in the plan.