Open Database Connectivity. In computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing database management systems (DBMS). The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of database systems and operating systems.
The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits 100 on this day in 1793. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead. Yellow fever, or American plague as it was known at the time, is a viral disease that begins with fever and muscle pain.
Typhoid fever was the major killer in the Spanish-American war of 1898 as well. Due to vaccinations and advances in public sanitation, the incidence of typhoid fever in developed countries plummeted to approximately 5 cases per one million people per year. Nevertheless, outbreaks caused by other Salmonella serovars are commonly observed.