Death toll
| Region
| Years
| Name
| Species
| Citation
|
| Egypt
| Template:Dts -Template:Dts
|
| bubonic plague or influenza
| <ref>Arielle Kozloff, in "Bubonic Plague in the Reign of Amenhotep III?" (KMT, 17, 3 (Fall 2006), pp. 36-46)</ref><ref>Ancient Egypt Online Akhenaten Accessed 21 Feb 2007</ref>
|
| Greece
| Template:Dts -Template:Dts
| Plague of Athens
| plague
| <ref name="Kohn2008"/>
|
5,000,000
| Roman Empire
| Template:Dts –Template:Dts
| Antonine Plague
| smallpox
| <ref name="Stathakopoulos2004">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
| Roman Empire
| Template:Dts –Template:Dts
| Plague of Cyprian
| smallpox
| <ref name="Kohn2008">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
100,000,000
| Byzantine Empire
| Template:Dts -Template:Dts
| Plague of Justinian
| bubonic plague
| <ref name="Rosen2007">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
25,000
| Palestine
| Template:Dts
| Plague of Emmaus
| bubonic plague
| <ref> Dols, Michael W. "Plague in Early Islamic History". Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 94, No. 3 (Jul-Sep, 1974), pp. 371-383. </ref>
|
100,000,000
| Europe, Asia
| 1338-1351
| Black Death
| bubonic plague
| <ref name="Hecker1835">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
| France
| 1466
| Paris
| plague
| <ref>Plague – LoveToKnow 1911</ref>
|
| England
| 1485
|
| sweating sickness
|
|
| Spain
| 1489
| Granada
| typhus
|
|
| Hispaniola
| 1493
|
| influenza
|
|
| Iceland
| 1494–1495
|
| plague
|
|
| England
| 1498
|
| plague
| <ref>Plague in Tudor and Stuart England</ref>
|
| Italy
| 1505–1530
|
| typhus
| <ref name="Hirsch1883">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
| Hispaniola
| 1507
|
| smallpox
| <ref>Texas Department of State Health Services, History of Smallpox</ref>
|
| England
| 1509–1510
|
| plague
|
|
| Puerto Rico
| 1515
|
| smallpox
|
|
| Hispaniola
| 1518
|
| smallpox
|
|
| Mexico
| 1520
|
| smallpox
| <ref>Guns Germs & Steel: Variables. Smallpox</ref>
|
| Germany
| 1527
|
| plague
|
|
| Peru
| 1527–1530
|
| smallpox
|
|
| England
| 1528
|
| sweating sickness
|
|
| Mexico, Peru
| 1530–1531
|
| measles
|
|
| Mexico, Peru
| 1546
|
| typhus
|
|
| Brazil
| 1555
|
| smallpox
|
|
| Spain
| 1557
| Valencia
| plague
|
|
| Mexico, Peru
| 1558–1559
|
| influenza
|
|
| Ottoman Empire
| 1560
| Istanbul
| plague
|
|
| Chile
| 1561
|
| smallpox
|
|
| England
| 1563–1564
|
| plague
|
|
| Russia
| 1570
| Moscow
| plague
|
|
| Scotland
| 1574
| Edinburgh
| plague
|
|
| Mexico
| 1576
|
| viral hemorrhagic fever
| <ref>American plague, New Scientist</ref>
|
| Seneca nation
| 1592–1596
|
| measles
| <ref>American Indian Epidemics</ref>
|
| Spain
| 1596–1602
|
| plague
| <ref>A History of Spain and Portugal</ref>
|
| South America
| 1600-1650
|
| malaria
|
|
| England
| 1603
| London
| plague
|
|
| Egypt
| 1609
|
| plague
|
|
| Thirteen Colonies
| 1617–1619
| Massachusetts Bay area
| smallpox
| <ref>The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge</ref>
|
| 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
| <ref name="Brook1999">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
| Spain
| 1647–1652
| Great Plague of Seville
| plague
|
|
| South America
| 1648
|
| yellow fever
|
|
| Italy
| 1656
| Naples
| plague
|
|
| Thirteen Colonies
| 1657
| Boston, Massachusetts
| measles
|
|
| Netherlands
| 1663–1664
| Amsterdam
| plague
|
|
| England
| 1665-1666
| Great Plague of London
| plague
|
|
40,000
| France
| 1668
|
| plague
|
|
| Spain
| 1676–1685
|
| plague
|
|
| Austria
| 1679
| Great Plague of Vienna
| plague
|
|
| Thirteen Colonies
| 1687
| Boston, Massachusetts
| measles
|
|
| Thirteen Colonies
| 1690
| New York City
| yellow fever
|
|
| Canada, New France
| 1702 - 1703
|
| smallpox
| <ref>B. Desjardins "Demographic Aspects of the 1702-1703 Smallpox Epidemic in the St. Lawrence Valley". Canadian Studies in Population, vol. 23, No 1 (1996), pp. 49-67.</ref>
|
| 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
| <ref>"The Measles Epidemic of 1714- 1715 in New France" Canadian Studies in Population, vol. 36 (2009), pp. 295-323.</ref>
|
| France
| 1720–1722
| Great Plague of Marseille
| plague
|
|
| Thirteen Colonies
| 1721–1722
| Boston, Massachusetts
| smallpox
| <ref>Zabdiel Boylston and innoculation</ref>
|
| Thirteen Colonies
| 1729
| Boston, Massachusetts
| measles
|
|
| Spain
| 1730
| Cadiz
| yellow fever
|
|
| Thirteen Colonies
| 1732–1733
|
| influenza
| <ref name="TurningPoints">Ambrosevideo.com</ref>
|
| Canada, New France
| 1733
|
| smallpox
| <ref>"Does exposure to infectious diseases in infancy affect old-age mortality? Evidence from a pre-industrial population" Social Science & Medicine, vol.68 (2009), pp.1609-1616.</ref>
|
| 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
|
|
| Russia
| 1770–1772
| Russian plague of 1770-1772
| plague
|
|
| Pacific Northwest natives
| 1770s
|
| smallpox
| <ref>Greg Lange,"Smallpox epidemic ravages Native Americans on the northwest coast of North America in the 1770s", 23 Jan 2003, HistoryLink.org, Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, accessed 2 Jun 2008</ref>
|
| North America
| 1772
|
| measles
|
|
| North America
| 1775
| particularly in the northeast
| unknown cause
| Template:Citation needed
|
| England
| 1775–1776
|
| influenza
| <ref name="Lancet"> The Lancet, Volume 143, Issue 3673, Pages 175 - 176, 20 January 1894 </ref>
|
| Spain
| 1778
| Cadiz
| dengue fever
|
|
| Plains Indians
| 1780–1782
| North American smallpox epidemic
| smallpox
| <ref>"The first smallpox epidemic on the Canadian Plains: In the fur-traders' words", National Institutes of Health</ref>
|
| Pueblo Indians
| 1788
|
| smallpox
|
|
| United States
| 1788
| Philadelphia and New York
| measles
|
|
| New South Wales
| 1789-1790
| amongst the Aborigines
| smallpox
| <ref>BC [Before Cook] and Colonisation</ref>
|
| 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
| <ref>Epidemics</ref>
|
| Spain
| 1800–1803
|
| yellow fever
| <ref>Tiger mosquitoes and the history of yellow fever and dengue in Spain</ref>
|
| Ottoman Empire, Egypt
| 1801
|
| bubonic plague
| <ref name="Davidson1893">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
| 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
| <ref name="Hays2005">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
| United States
| 1820–1823
| arising near Schuylkill River
| feverTemplate:Ambig
|
|
| Spain
| 1821
| Barcelona
| yellow fever
| <ref>Yellow Fever - LoveToKnow 1911</ref>
|
| New South Wales
| 1828
| amongst the Aborigines
| smallpox
| <ref>Aboriginal Health History</ref>
|
| Netherlands
| 1829
| Groningen epidemic
| malaria
|
|
| South Australia
| 1829
|
| smallpox
| <ref>South Australian History Timeline (19th Century)</ref>
|
| Iran
| 1829–1835
|
| bubonic plague
| <ref>A History of the Human Plague in Iran, Mohammad Azizi, Farzaneh Azizi</ref>
|
>>100,000
| Asia, Europe, North America
| 1829–1851
| second cholera pandemic
| cholera
| <ref name=Hays2005/>
|
| Egypt
| 1831
|
| cholera
| <ref name=Kuhnke>Kuhnke, Laverne. Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt. ark.cdlib.org, Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990.</ref><ref name=Gallagher>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</ref>
|
| 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
| <ref name=Kuhnke /><ref name=Gallagher/>
|
| 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
|
|
| United States
| 1847
| New Orleans
| yellow fever
|
|
| worldwide
| 1847–1848
|
| influenza
| <ref name="AJAMA">American Journal of the Medical Sciences: July 1849 - Volume 18 - Issue 35 - ppg 148-154</ref>
|
| Egypt
| 1848
|
| cholera
| <ref name=Kuhnke /><ref name=Gallagher/>
|
| 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
| <ref name=Hays2005/>
|
| Ottoman Empire
| 1853
| what is now Yemen
| plague
| <ref name="Practitioner">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
616
| England
| 1854
| Broad Street cholera outbreak
| cholera
| <ref name="Snow1855">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
| United States
| 1855
|
| yellow fever
|
|
| worldwide
| 1855–1950
| Third Pandemic
| bubonic plague
| <ref name=Pryor/>
|
| Portugal
| 1857
| Lisbon
| yellow fever
|
|
| Victoria, Australia
| 1857
|
| smallpox
| <ref>Australian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI) – Colonial Medical Life</ref>
|
| Europe, North America, South America
| 1857–1859
|
| influenza
| <ref>Beveridge, W.I.B. Influenza, the Last Great Plague (Heinemann, London, 1977)</ref>
|
| Middle East
| 1863–1879
| fourth cholera pandemic
| cholera
| <ref name=Hays2005/>
|
| Egypt
| 1865
|
| cholera
| <ref name=Kuhnke /><ref name=Gallagher/>
|
| Russia, Germany
| 1866–1867
|
| cholera
|
|
| Australia
| 1867
| Sydney
| measles
|
|
| Iraq
| 1867
|
| plague
| <ref>1902Encyclopedia.com</ref>
|
| Germany
| 1870–1871
|
| smallpox
|
|
| Russian Empire
| 1877
| Baku, now part of Azerbaijan
| plague
| <ref name="1911e" />
|
| Egypt
| 1881
|
| cholera
| <ref name=Kuhnke /><ref name=Gallagher/>
|
>>9,000
| India, Germany
| 1881-1896
| fifth cholera pandemic
| cholera
| <ref name=Hays2005/>
|
1,000,000
| worldwide
| 1889–1890
| Russian flu
| influenza
| <ref name="Board1893">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
| Congo Basin
| 1896–1906
|
| trypanosomiasis
| <ref>African trypanosomiasis, WHO</ref>
|
>>800,000
| Europe, Asia, Africa
| 1899–1923
| sixth cholera pandemic
| cholera
| <ref name=Hays2005/>
|
| West Africa
| 1900
|
| yellow fever
|
|
| Uganda
| 1900–1920
|
| trypanosomiasis
| <ref>Reanalyzing the 1900-1920 sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda</ref>
|
| Egypt
| 1902
|
| cholera
| <ref name=Kuhnke /><ref name=Gallagher/>
|
| India
| 1903
|
| plague
| <ref name="DSHS" />
|
| China
| 1910-1912
| Manchuria
| bubonic plague
| <ref name="Harbin Plague" />
|
75,000,000
| worldwide
| 1918–1920
| 1918 flu pandemic
| influenza
| <ref name="Patterson1" />
|
| Russia
| 1918–1922
|
| typhus
|
|
| Egypt
| 1942-1944
|
| malaria
| <ref name=Kuhnke /><ref name=Gallagher/>
|
| China
| 1946
| Manchuria
| bubonic plague
|
|
| Egypt
| 1946
|
| relapsing fever
| <ref name=Kuhnke /><ref name=Gallagher/>
|
| Egypt
| 1947
|
| cholera
| <ref name=Kuhnke /><ref name=Gallagher/>
|
2,000,000
| worldwide
| 1957–1958
| Asian flu
| influenza
| <ref name="Paul2008">Template:Cite book</ref>
|
| worldwide
| 1961-present
| seventh cholera pandemic
| cholera
| <ref name=Hays2005/>
|
1,000,000
| worldwide
| 1968–1969
| Hong Kong flu
| influenza
| <ref name=Paul2008/>
|
| Yugoslavia
| 1972
| 1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia
| smallpox
|
|
15,000
| India
| 1974
| 1974 smallpox epidemic of India
| smallpox
|
|
25,000,000
| worldwide
| 1981–present
| HIV/AIDS pandemic
| HIV/AIDS
| <ref> UNAIDS (2010) report on the global AIDS epidemic' </ref>
|
| South America
| 1990s
|
| cholera
|
|
52
| India
| 1994
| 1994 plague epidemic in Surat
| plague
|
|
| West Africa
| 1996
|
| meningitis
|
|
| Central America
| 2000
|
| dengue fever
| <ref>Dengue in the Americas: The Epidemics of 2000</ref>
|
| Nigeria
| 2001
|
| cholera
| <ref>Nigeria cholera outbreak kills 400</ref>
|
| South Africa
| 2001
|
| cholera
| <ref>Cholera Spreads Through South Africa Townships</ref>
|
775
| Asia
| 2002–2003
| SARS
| SARS coronavirus
|
|
| Algeria
| 2003
|
| plague
| <ref>Plague reappearance in Algeria after 50 years, 2003.</ref>
|
| Afghanistan
| 2004
|
| leishmaniasis
| <ref name="WHOint" />
|
| Bangladesh
| 2004
|
| cholera
| <ref name="Pubmed" />
|
| Indonesia
| 2004
|
| dengue fever
|
|
| Senegal
| 2004
|
| cholera
| <ref>Cholera epidemic takes hold in Senegal</ref>
|
| Sudan
| 2004
|
| ebola
|
|
| Mali
| 2005
|
| yellow fever
| <ref>Mali: Yellow fever epidemic in Kayes</ref>
|
19
| Singapore
| 2005
| 2005 dengue outbreak in Singapore
| dengue fever
|
|
| Angola
| 2006
| Luanda
| cholera
| <ref>Worst cholera outbreak in Angola, BBC</ref>
|
| Congo
| 2006
| Ituri Province
| plague
|
|
| India
| 2006
|
| malaria
| <ref>Malaria Epidemic Sweeps Northeast India</ref>
|
50+
| India
| 2006
| 2006 dengue outbreak in India
| dengue fever
| <ref>Dengue epidemic threatens India's capital</ref>
|
| India
| 2006
| Chikungunya outbreaks
| Chikungunya virus
| Chikungunya in India]</ref>
|
50+
| Pakistan
| 2006
| 2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan
| dengue fever
|
|
| Philippines
| 2006
|
| dengue fever
|
|
| Congo
| 2007
| Mweka
| ebola
| <ref>"Mourners die as fever grips Congo." Sydney Morning Herald, August 30, 2007</ref>
|
| Ethiopia
| 2007
|
| cholera
| <ref>Fatal outbreak not a cholera epidemic, insists Ethiopia</ref>
|
49
| India
| 2007
|
| cholera
| <ref>Cholera death toll in India rises, BBC News</ref>
|
10
| Iraq
| 2007
| 2007 Iraq cholera outbreak
| cholera
| <ref>Cholera outbreak in Iraq growing, Associated Press</ref>
|
| Nigeria
| 2007
|
| polio
| <ref>Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria, BBC News</ref>
|
| Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico
| 2007
|
| dengue fever
| <ref>Dengue fever epidemic hits Caribbean, Latin America, Reuters</ref>
|
| Somalia
| 2007
|
| cholera
| <ref>Somalia cholera death fears grow</ref>
|
| Uganda
| 2007
|
| ebola
|
|
| Vietnam
| 2007
|
| cholera
| <ref>Cholera epidemic losing its sting</ref>
|
| Brazil
| 2008
|
| dengue fever
|
|
| Cambodia
| 2008
|
| dengue fever
| <ref>Cambodia suffers worst dengue epidemic, 407 dead, Reuters</ref>
|
| Chad
| 2008
|
| cholera
| <ref>Cholera epidemic in western Chad kills 123</ref>
|
| China
| 2008
|
| hand, foot and mouth disease
|
|
| Madagascar
| 2008
|
| bubonic plague
| <ref>Madagascar: eighteen dead from Bubonic Plague, five in hospital since 1 January 2008</ref>
|
| Philippines
| 2008
|
| dengue fever
| <ref>Dengue cases in Philippines rise by 43 percent: government</ref>
|
| Vietnam
| 2008
|
| cholera
| <ref>Vietnam PM urges action against diarrhea outbreak, Thanh Nien Daily</ref>
|
4,293
| Zimbabwe
| 2008–2009
| 2008–2009 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak
| cholera
|
|
18
| Bolivia
| 2009
| 2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic
| dengue fever
|
|
| India
| 2009
| 2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak
| hepatitis B
|
|
| Queensland, Australia
| 2009
|
| dengue fever
| <ref>"Dengue fever epidemic hits northern Australia". bmj.com. March 9, 2009.</ref>
|
| worldwide
| 2009
| Mumps outbreaks in the 2000s
| mumps
|
|
931
| West Africa
| 2009-2010
| 2009-2010 West African meningitis outbreak
| meningitis
| <ref>"West Africa has worst meningitis epidemic for 10 years". bmj.com. April 21, 2009.</ref>
|
14,286
| worldwide
| 2009–2010
| 2009 flu pandemic
| influenza
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