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This article is a list of epidemics of infectious disease . Widespread and chronic complaints such as heart disease and allergy are not included if they are not thought to be infectious.
Pre-1500 [ edit ]
1500–1699 [ edit ]
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
005000000 ! 5–15 million (80% of population)
Mexico
1545–1548
Cocoliztli
viral hemorrhagic fever
[6] [7] [8]
002000000 ! 2–2.5 million (50% of population)
Mexico
1576
Cocoliztli epidemic of 1576
viral hemorrhagic fever
[6] [7] [8]
Seneca nation
1592–1596
measles
[9]
Spain
1596–1602
plague
[10]
South America
1600–1650
malaria
England
1603
London
plague
Egypt
1609
plague
30–90% of population
Southern New England , especially the Wampanoag people
1616–1619
Unknown cause. Latest research suggests epidemic(s) of leptospirosis with Weil syndrome . Classic explanations include yellow fever , bubonic plague , influenza , smallpox , chickenpox , typhus , and syndemic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis D .
,[11] [12]
000280000 ! 280,000
Italy
1629–1631
Italian plague of 1629–1631
plague
Wyandot people
1630
in Ontario
smallpox
Thirteen Colonies
1633
Plymouth Colony
smallpox
Thirteen Colonies
1634
Connecticut River area
smallpox
England
1636
Newcastle
plague
China
1641–1644
helped end the Ming Dynasty
plague
[13]
Spain
1647–1652
Great Plague of Seville
plague
South America
1648
yellow fever
Italy
1656
Naples
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1657
Boston, Massachusetts
measles
24,148[14]
Netherlands
1663–1664
Amsterdam
plague
000100000 ! 100,000 [15]
England
1665–1666
Great Plague of London
plague
40,000
France
1668
plague
Spain
1676–1685
plague
76,000
Austria
1679
Great Plague of Vienna
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1687
Boston, Massachusetts
measles
Thirteen Colonies
1690
New York City
yellow fever
18th century [ edit ]
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
Canada , New France
1702–1703
smallpox
[16]
Sweden
1710–1711
Stockholm
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1713
Boston, Massachusetts
measles
Thirteen Colonies
1713–1715
New England and the Great Lakes
measles
Canada , New France
1714–1715
measles
[17]
France
1720–1722
Great Plague of Marseille
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1721–1722
Boston, Massachusetts
smallpox
[18]
Thirteen Colonies
1729
Boston, Massachusetts
measles
Spain
1730
Cadiz
yellow fever
Thirteen Colonies
1732–1733
influenza
[19]
Canada , New France
1733
smallpox
[20]
>50,000
Balkans
1738
Great Plague of 1738
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1738
South Carolina
smallpox
Thirteen Colonies
1739–1740
Boston, Massachusetts
measles
Italy
1743
Messina
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1747
CT , NY , PA , SC
measles
North America
1755–1756
smallpox
North America
1759
measles
North America , West Indies
1761
influenza
North America , present Day Pittsburgh area.
1763
Native American victims of Biological warfare during the Siege of Fort Pitt , part of the French and Indian War .
Smallpox
>50,000
Russia
1770–1772
Russian plague of 1770–1772
plague
Pacific Northwest natives
1770s
smallpox
[21]
North America
1772
measles
North America
1775
particularly in the northeast
unknown cause
England
1775–1776
influenza
[22]
Spain
1778
Cadiz
dengue fever
Plains Indians
1780–1782
North American smallpox epidemic
smallpox
[23]
Pueblo Indians
1788
smallpox
United States
1788
Philadelphia and New York
measles
New South Wales, Australia
1789–1790
amongst the Aborigines
smallpox
[24]
United States
1793
Vermont
influenza and epidemic typhus
United States
1793
Virginia
influenza
United States
1793–1798
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 , resurgences
yellow fever
[25]
19th century [ edit ]
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
Spain
1800–1803
yellow fever
[26]
Ottoman Empire , Egypt
1801
bubonic plague
[27]
United States
1803
New York
yellow fever
Egypt
1812
plague
Ottoman Empire
1812
Istanbul
plague
Malta
1813
plague
Romania
1813
Bucharest
plague
Ireland
1816–1819
typhus
>>100,000
Asia , Europe
1816–1826
first cholera pandemic
cholera
[28]
United States
1820–1823
arising near Schuylkill River
fever [ambiguous ]
Spain
1821
Barcelona
yellow fever
[29]
New South Wales, Australia
1828
amongst the Aborigines
smallpox
[30]
Netherlands
1829
Groningen epidemic
malaria
South Australia
1829
smallpox
[31]
Iran
1829–1835
bubonic plague
[32]
>>100,000
Asia , Europe , North America
1829–1851
second cholera pandemic
cholera
[28]
Egypt
1831
cholera
[33] [34]
Plains Indians
1831–1834
smallpox
England , France
1832
London , Paris
cholera
North America
1832
New York City , Montreal other cities
cholera
United States
1833
Columbus, Ohio
cholera
United States
1834
New York City
cholera
Egypt
1834–1836
bubonic plague
[33] [34]
United States
1837
Philadelphia
typhus
Great Plains
1837–1838
1837-38 smallpox epidemic
smallpox
Dalmatia
1840
plague
South Africa
1840
Cape Town
smallpox
United States
1841
especially severe in the South
yellow fever
20,000+
Canada
1847–1848
Typhus epidemic of 1847
epidemic typhus
[35]
United States
1847
New Orleans
yellow fever
worldwide
1847–1848
influenza
[36]
Egypt
1848
cholera
[33] [34]
North America
1848–1849
cholera
United States
1850
yellow fever
North America
1850–1851
influenza
United States
1851
Illinois , the Great Plains , and Missouri
cholera
United States
1852
New Orleans
yellow fever
1,000,000
Russia
1852–1860
third cholera pandemic
cholera
[28]
Ottoman Empire
1853
what is now Yemen
plague
[37]
4,737
Copenhagen , Denmark
1853
Cholera epidemic of Copenhagen 1853
cholera
[38]
616
England
1854
Broad Street cholera outbreak
cholera
[39]
United States
1855
yellow fever
worldwide
1855–1950
Third plague pandemic
bubonic plague
[40]
Portugal
1857
Lisbon
yellow fever
Victoria , Australia
1857
smallpox
[41]
Europe , North America , South America
1857–1859
influenza
[42]
Middle East
1863–1879
fourth cholera pandemic
cholera
[28]
Egypt
1865
cholera
[33] [34]
Russia , Germany
1866–1867
cholera
Australia
1867
Sydney
measles
Iraq
1867
plague
[43]
Argentina
1852–1871
Buenos Aires
yellow fever
[44]
Germany
1870–1871
smallpox
40,000
Fiji
1875
Fiji
measles
[45]
Russian Empire
1877
Baku , now part of Azerbaijan
plague
[46]
Egypt
1881
cholera
[33] [34]
>>9,000
India , Germany
1881–1896
fifth cholera pandemic
cholera
[28]
3,164
Montreal
1885
smallpox
timeline
1,000,000
worldwide
1889–1890
1889–1890 flu pandemic
influenza
[47]
20th century [ edit ]
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
Congo Basin
1896–1906
trypanosomiasis
[48]
>>800,000
Europe , Asia , Africa
1899–1923
sixth cholera pandemic
cholera
[28]
113
San Francisco
1900–1904
Third plague pandemic
bubonic plague
[49]
West Africa
1900
yellow fever
Uganda
1900–1920
trypanosomiasis
[50]
Egypt
1902
cholera
[33] [34]
India
1903
plague
[51]
40,000
China
1910–1912
Harbin , Shenyang
bubonic plague
[52]
75,000,000
worldwide
1918–1920
1918 flu pandemic
influenza
[53]
Russia
1918–1922
typhus
Egypt
1942–1944
malaria
[33] [34]
China
1946
Harbin
bubonic plague
Egypt
1946
relapsing fever
[33] [34]
Egypt
1947
cholera
[33] [34]
2,000,000
worldwide
1957–1958
Asian flu
influenza
[54]
worldwide
1961–present
seventh cholera pandemic
cholera
[28]
1,000,000
worldwide
1968–1969
Hong Kong flu
influenza
[54]
5
Netherlands
1971
Staphorst , Elspeet and Uddel
Poliomyelitis
[55]
35
Yugoslavia
1972
1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia
smallpox
United States
1972–1973
London flu
influenza
[56]
15,000
India
1974
1974 smallpox epidemic of India
smallpox
0300000000 ! >30,000,000
Congo Basin
1960–present
HIV/AIDS pandemic
HIV/AIDS
[57]
South America
1990s
cholera
52
India
1994
1994 plague epidemic in Surat
plague
[58]
West Africa
1996
meningitis
21st century [ edit ]
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
Central America
2000
dengue fever
[59]
Nigeria
2001
cholera
[60]
South Africa
2001
cholera
[61]
775
Asia , Canada
2002–2003
SARS
SARS coronavirus
Algeria
2003
plague
[62]
Afghanistan
2004
leishmaniasis
[63]
Bangladesh
2004
cholera
[64]
Indonesia
2004
dengue fever
Senegal
2004
cholera
[65]
Sudan
2004
Ebola
Mali
2005
yellow fever
[66]
19
Singapore
2005
2005 dengue outbreak in Singapore
dengue fever
Angola
2006
Luanda
cholera
[67]
Congo
2006
Ituri Province
plague
India
2006
malaria
[68]
50+
India
2006
2006 dengue outbreak in India
dengue fever
[69]
India
2006
Chikungunya outbreaks
Chikungunya virus
[70]
50+
Pakistan
2006
2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan
dengue fever
Philippines
2006
dengue fever
Congo
2007
Mweka
Ebola
[71]
Ethiopia
2007
cholera
[72]
49
India
2008
cholera
[73]
10
Iraq
2007
2007 Iraq cholera outbreak
cholera
[74]
Nigeria
2007
Poliomyelitis
[75]
Puerto Rico , Dominican Republic , Mexico
2007
dengue fever
[76]
Somalia
2007
cholera
[77]
Uganda
2007
Ebola
Vietnam
2007
cholera
[78]
Brazil
2008
dengue fever
Cambodia
2008
dengue fever
[79]
Chad
2008
cholera
[80]
China
2008
hand, foot and mouth disease
Madagascar
2008
bubonic plague
[81]
Philippines
2008
dengue fever
[82]
Vietnam
2008
cholera
[83]
4,293
Zimbabwe
2008–2009
2008–2009 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak
cholera
18
Bolivia
2009
2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic
dengue fever
49
India
2009
2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak
hepatitis B
Queensland , Australia
2009
dengue fever
[84]
worldwide
2009
Mumps outbreaks in the 2000s
mumps
931
West Africa
2009–2010
2009-2010 West African meningitis outbreak
meningitis
[85]
14,286
worldwide
2009
2009 flu pandemic
influenza
[86] [87]
8,500+ (March 2014)
Hispaniola
2010–present
Haiti cholera outbreak
cholera
[88] [89]
4,500+ (February 2014)
Congo
2011–present
measles
[90] [91]
170
Vietnam
2011–present
hand, foot and mouth disease
[92] [93]
350+
Pakistan
2011–present
2011 dengue outbreak in Pakistan
dengue fever
847 (As of 10 January 2013)
Darfur Sudan
2012
2012 yellow fever outbreak in Darfur, Sudan
yellow fever
[94]
449 (As of 11 June 2015)
Worldwide
2012–present
2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak
Middle East respiratory syndrome
[95]
>11,300
West Africa
2013–2016
Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
Ebola virus disease
[96] [97]
183
Americas
2013–2015
2013–14 chikungunya outbreak
Chikungunya
[98]
40
Madagascar
2014–present
2014 Madagascar plague outbreak
Bubonic plague
36
India
2014–present
2014 Odisha jaundice outbreak
primarily Hepatitis E , but also Hepatitis A
[99]
2,035
India
2015–present
2015 Indian swine flu outbreak
Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
[100] [101] [102]
Americas
2015–present
Zika virus outbreak in the Americas (2015–present)
Zika virus
Hundreds (as of 1 April 2016)
Africa
2016
2016 yellow fever outbreak in Angola
yellow fever
[103]
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