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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
- 1847-1848: influenza
- 1857-1859: influenza
- 1816-1826: cholera
- 1829-1851: cholera
- 1852-1860: cholera
- 1863-1875: cholera
- 1899-1923: cholera
- 1918: influenza: Spanish Flu: more people were hospitalized in World War I from this epidemic than wounds. Estimates of the dead range to 50 million worldwide
- 1960s: cholera called El Tor
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, 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 emigrants)
- 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, 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
- 1878: yellow fever - New Orleans
- 1885: typhoid - Plymouth, Pennsylvania
- 1886: yellow fever - Jacksonville, Florida
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