List of epidemics

This article is a list of major epidemics.

• 165–180: Antonine Plague, perhaps smallpox
• 541: the Plague of Justinian
• 1300s: the Black Death
• 1501–1587: typhus
• 1732–1733: influenza
• 1775–1776: influenza
• 1816–1826: cholera
• 1829–1851: cholera
• 1847–1848: influenza
• 1852–1860: cholera
• 1855–1950s: bubonic plague: Third Pandemic
• 1857–1859: influenza
• 1863–1875: cholera
• 1889–1892: influenza
• 1899–1923: cholera
• 1918–1920: avian flu: Spanish flu: more people were hospitalized in World War I from this epidemic than wounds. Estimates of the dead range from 20 to 40 million worldwide (WHO)
• 1960s: cholera called El Tor
• 1980s to present: HIV

• 1957–1958: avian flu: Asian flu
• 1968–1969: avian flu: Hong Kong flu
• 1997: avian flu – China, Hong Kong
• 2002–2003: SARS

• 1493: influenza – Hispaniola
• 1518: smallpox – Hispaniola
• 1520: smallpox – Mexico
• 1527–1530: smallpox – Peru
• 1530–1531: measles – Mexico, Peru
• 1546: typhus – Mexico, Peru
• 1558–1559: influenza – Mexico, Peru
• early 1600s: malaria
• 1648: yellow fever

• 1347–1351: Black Death

• 1801: plague
• 1831: cholera
• 1834–1836: plague
• 1848, 1865, 1881: cholera
• 1902: cholera
• 1942–1944: falciparum malaria
• 1946: relapsing fever
• 1947: cholera

• 1657: measles – Boston, Massachusetts
• 1687: measles – Boston, Massachusetts
• 1690: yellow fever – New York, New York
• 1713: measles – Boston, Massachusetts
• 1721–1722:smallpox – Boston, Massachusetts
• 1729: measles – Boston, Massachusetts
• 1738: smallpox – South Carolina
• 1739–1740: measles – Boston, Massachusetts
• 1747: measles – Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina
• 1759: measles – North America
• 1761: influenza – North America and West Indies
• 1772: measles – North America
• 1775: unknown cause – North America, particularly in the northeast
• 1783: bilious disorder – Dover, Delaware
• 1788: measles – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York
• 1793: influenza and “putrid fever” – Vermont
• 1793: influenza – Virginia
• 1793: yellow fever – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1793: unknown – Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• 1793: unknown – Middletown, Pennsylvania
• 1794: yellow fever – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1796–1797: yellow fever – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1798: yellow fever – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1803: yellow fever – New York
• 1820–1823: fever – United States spreading from the Schuylkill River
• 1831–1832: Asiatic cholera – United States (brought by English immigrants)
• 1832: cholera – New York City and other major cities
• 1833: cholera – Columbus, Ohio
• 1834: cholera – New York City
• 1837: typhus – Philadelphia
• 1841: yellow fever – United States (especially severe in the South)
• 1847: yellow fever New Orleans
• 1848–1849: cholera – North America
• 1849: cholera New York
• 1850: yellow fever – United States
• 1850–1851: influenza – North America
• 1851: cholera Coles County, Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri
• 1852: yellow fever – United States (New Orleans-8,000 die in summer)
• 1855: yellow fever – United States
• 1860–1861: smallpox – Pennsylvania
• 1865–1873: smallpox – Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, New Orleans
• 1865–1873: cholera – Baltimore, Maryland, Memphis, Washington, DC
• 1865–1873: recurring epidemics of typhus, typhoid, scarlet fever, and yellow fever
• 1873–1875: influenza – North America and Europe
• 1876: smallpox – Deadwood, South Dakota
• 1878: yellow fever – Memphis, New Orleans
• 1885: typhoid – Plymouth, Pennsylvania
• 1886: yellow fever – Jacksonville, Florida
• 1918–1920: Spanish flu – Fort Riley, Kansas

• Kuhnke, Laverne. Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.[1] Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990.
• Gallagher, Nancy. Egypt’s Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health. Syracuse University Press, c1990. Published by the American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 977-424-295-5

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