List of epidemics

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

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

 * 1347-1351: Black Death

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

On Egypt

 * Kuhnke, Laverne. Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt. 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

List of epidemics