List of epidemics

This is a list of major epidemics.

Pandemics

• 165-180: Antonine Plague, perhaps smallpox
• 541: bubonic plague(the Plague of Justinian)
• 1300s: the Black Death
• 1732-1733: influenza
• 1775-1776: influenza
• 1816-1826: cholera
• 1829-1851: cholera
• 1847-1848: influenza
• 1852-1860: cholera
• 1857-1859: influenza
• 1863-1875: cholera
• 1899-1923: cholera
• 1918: influenza: Spanish Flu: more people were hospitalized in World War Ifrom this epidemic than wounds. Estimates of the dead range to 50 million worldwide
• 1957-1958: influenza: Asian Flu: killed over a million people worldwide
• 1959-present: AIDS
• 1960s: choleracalled El Tor
• 1968-1969: influenza: Hong Kong Flu
• 1993-1994: Plague: Gujarat, India
• 2002-2003: SARS: Although there were fewer than ten thousand cases of the disease, air travel spread them widely, and the appearance of a previously-unknown contagious disease caused massive media attention.

North America

• 1657: measles- Boston, Massachusetts
• 1687: measles- Boston, Massachusetts
• 1690: yellow fever- New York, New York
• 1713: measles- 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, Pennsylvaniaand New York
• 1793: influenzaand "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 Statesspreading from the Schuylkill River
• 1831-1832: Asiatic cholera- United States(brought by English emigrants)
• 1832: cholera- New York Cityand 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 feverNew Orleans
• 1848-1849: cholera- North America
• 1849: choleraNew York
• 1850: yellow fever- United States
• 1850-1851: influenza- North America
• 1851: choleraColes 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, Massachusetts, New Orleans
• 1865-1873: cholera- Baltimore, Maryland, Memphis, Tennessee, 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- New Orleans
• 1885: typhoid- Plymouth, Pennsylvania
• 1886: yellow fever- Jacksonville, Florida

Australia

• 1928: Contaminated vaccine, Bundaberg

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