Genes are also to blame.
No, rickets is not caused by microbes. Rickets is caused by a lack of vitamin D, calcium or phosphate.
No. They're caused by prions, which are FAR tinier than microbes.
Mumps is caused by a virus.
No link between uranium and epidemic diseases.
The epidemic was caused by a highly contagious virus.
Microbes.
A major flu epidemic caused by a vaccine failure was the reason many schools closed in 1947.
No, it is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin C- like scurvy is.
The aids epidemic had a huge impact on the cold war, the impact was caused by aids
Smallpox
Mumps are caused by a virus so it depends what you consider a microbe. Some microbiologists consider viruses to be microbes and some don't because they are technically non-living.
Flu is always caused a virus, not bacteria, so no flu epidemic will be due to a bacterial agent. This is true of the 1918 "Spanish Flu", it was caused by a virus.