List of epidemics
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This article is a list of major epidemics.
Worldwide Pandemics
- 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
Regional
Asia
- 1957-1958: avian flu: Asian flu
- 1968-1969: avian flu: Hong Kong flu
- 1997: avian flu - China, Hong Kong
- 2002-2003: SARS
Central and South America
- 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
Europe
Egypt
- 1801: plague
- 1831: cholera
- 1834-1836: plague
- 1848, 1865, 1881: cholera
- 1902: cholera
- 1942-1944: falciparum malaria
- 1946: relapsing fever
- 1947: cholera
North America
- 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
References
On Egypt
- Kuhnke, Laverne. Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.[2] 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 977-424-295-5simple:List of epidemics
Acknowledgement and Attribution Regarding Sources of Content
Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
