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This article is a 'list of major epidemics'.

Contents

Worldwide Pandemics

Regional

Asia

Central and South America

Europe

Egypt

North America

References

On Egypt

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

★ 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

References

On Egypt

★ Kuhnke, Laverne. ''Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.''[1] 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