List of Epidemics: Comparison
Please note this is a comparison between Version 2 by Vivi Li and Version 1 by Vivi Li.

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.

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1. Pre-1500

 
Death toll (estimate) Location Date Article Disease Ref.
Greece Plague of Athens unknown, possibly typhus [1]
Europe, Western Asia, Northern Africa Antonine Plague unknown, symptoms similar to smallpox [2]
  Europe Plague of Cyprian unknown, possibly smallpox [3]
Europe, Egypt, West Asia Plague of Justinian plague [4]
  Rome Roman Plague of 590 plague [5]  
Ctesiphon, Persia   plague [6]
  British Isles Plague of 664 plague [7]
  British Isles   plague [7]
  Japan   Smallpox [8][9]
  Byzantine Empire, West Asia, Africa   plague [10]
Europe, Asia and North Africa 1331–1353 Black Death plague
Yersinia pestis. https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?curid=1309424
 
Yersinia pestis
[11]

2. 1500–1699

Death toll (estimate) Location Date Article Disease Ref.
Mexico 1545–1548 Cocoliztli Epidemic of 1545–1548 Possibly Salmonella enterica [12][13][14][15]
Mexico 1576 Cocoliztli epidemic of 1576 Possibly Salmonella enterica [12][13][14][15]
  Seneca nation 1592–1596   measles [16]
  Spain 1596–1602   plague [17]
  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. [18][19]
Italy 1629–1631 Italian plague of 1629–1631 plague [20]
  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 [21]
  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[22] Netherlands 1663–1664 Amsterdam plague  
Template:Sortkey[23] England 1665–1666 Great Plague of London plague [24]
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  

3. 18th Century

Death toll (estimate) Location Date Article Disease Ref.
  Canada , New France 1702–1703   smallpox [25]
  Sweden 1710–1712 Great Northern War plague outbreak plague  
  Thirteen Colonies 1713 Boston, Massachusetts measles  
  Thirteen Colonies 1713–1715 New England and the Great Lakes measles  
  Canada , New France 1714–1715   measles [26]
  France 1720–1722 Great Plague of Marseille plague [27]
  Thirteen Colonies 1721–1722 Boston, Massachusetts smallpox [28]
  Thirteen Colonies 1729 Boston, Massachusetts measles  
  Spain 1730 Cadiz yellow fever  
  Thirteen Colonies 1732–1733   influenza [29]
  Canada , New France 1733   smallpox [30]
> 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 [31]
  North America 1772   measles  
Persia   plague [6]
  North America 1775 particularly in the Northeast unknown cause  
  England 1775–1776   influenza [32]
  Spain 1778 Cadiz dengue fever  
  Plains Indians 1780–1782 North American smallpox epidemic smallpox [33]
  Pueblo Indians 1788   smallpox  
  United States 1788 Philadelphia and New York City measles  
  New South Wales, Australia 1789–1790 amongst the Aborigines smallpox [34]
  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 [35]

4. 19th Century

Death toll (estimate) Location Date Article Disease Ref.
  Spain 1800–1803   yellow fever [36]
  Ottoman Empire, Egypt 1801   bubonic plague [37]
  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 [38]
  United States 1820–1823 arising near Schuylkill River fever  
  Spain 1821 Barcelona yellow fever Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content
  New South Wales, Australia 1828 amongst the Aborigines smallpox [39]
  Netherlands 1829 Groningen epidemic malaria  
  South Australia 1829   smallpox [40]
  Iran 1829–1835   bubonic plague [41]
> 100,000 Asia, Europe, North America 1829–1851 second cholera pandemic cholera [38]
  Egypt 1831   cholera [42][43]
  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 [42][43]
  United States 1837 Philadelphia typhus  
  Great Plains 1837–1838 1837–38 smallpox epidemic smallpox [44]
  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 [45]
  United States 1847 New Orleans yellow fever  
  worldwide 1847–1848   influenza [46]
  Egypt 1848   cholera [42][43]
  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 [38]
  Ottoman Empire 1853 what is now Yemen plague [47]
4,737 Copenhagen, Denmark 1853 Cholera epidemic of Copenhagen 1853 cholera [48]
616 England 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak cholera [49]
  United States 1855   yellow fever  
  worldwide 1855–1960 Third plague pandemic bubonic plague [50]
  Portugal 1857 Lisbon yellow fever  
  Victoria, Australia 1857   smallpox [51]
  Europe, North America, South America 1857–1859   influenza [52]
  Middle East 1863–1879 fourth cholera pandemic cholera [38]
  Egypt 1865   cholera [42][43]
  Russia , Germany 1866–1867   cholera  
  Australia 1867 Sydney measles  
  Iraq 1867   plague [53]
  Argentina 1852–1871 Buenos Aires yellow fever [54]
  Germany 1870–1871   smallpox  
40,000 Fiji 1875 Fiji measles [55]
  Russian Empire 1877 Baku, now part of Azerbaijan plague [56]
  Egypt 1881   cholera [42][43]
> 9,000 India , Germany 1881–1896 fifth cholera pandemic cholera [38]
3,164 Montreal 1885   smallpox timeline
1,000,000 worldwide 1889–1890 1889–1890 flu pandemic influenza [57]

5. 20th Century

Death toll (estimate) Location Date Article Disease Ref.
  Congo Basin 1896–1906   trypanosomiasis [58]
> 800,000 Europe, Asia, Africa 1899–1923 sixth cholera pandemic cholera [38]
113 San Francisco 1900–1904 Third plague pandemic bubonic plague [59]
  West Africa 1900   yellow fever  
  Uganda 1900–1920   trypanosomiasis [60]
  Egypt 1902   cholera [42][43]
  India 1903   plague [61]
4 Fremantle 1903   bubonic plague [62]
40,000 China 1910–1912 Harbin, Shenyang bubonic plague [63]
75,000,000 worldwide 1918–1920 Spanish flu influenza
Spanish Flu Virus. https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?curid=1213406
 
Spanish Flu Virus
[64]
  Russia 1918–1922   typhus  
  Egypt 1942–1944   malaria [42][43]
  China 1946 Harbin bubonic plague  
  Egypt 1946   relapsing fever [42][43]
  Egypt 1947   cholera [42][43]
2,000,000 worldwide 1957–1958 Asian flu influenza [65]
  worldwide 1961–1975 seventh cholera pandemic cholera [38]
1,000,000 worldwide 1968–1969 Hong Kong flu influenza [65]
5 Netherlands 1971 Staphorst, Elspeet and Uddel poliomyelitis [66]
35 Yugoslavia 1972 1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia smallpox  
  United States 1972–1973 London flu influenza [67]
15,000 India 1974 1974 smallpox epidemic of India smallpox  
worldwide

(commenced in Congo Basin)
1960–present HIV/AIDS pandemic HIV/AIDS [68]
  South America 1990s   cholera  
52 India 1994 1994 plague epidemic in Surat plague [69]
  West Africa 1996   meningitis  
  Central America 2000 20th century dengue fever [70]

6. 21st Century

Death toll (estimate) Location Date Article Disease Ref.
  Nigeria 2001   cholera [71]
  South Africa 2001   cholera [72]
775 Asia 2002–2003 SARS SARS coronavirus  
  Algeria 2003   plague [73]
  Afghanistan 2004   leishmaniasis [74]
  Bangladesh 2004   cholera [75]
  Indonesia 2004   dengue fever  
  Senegal 2004   cholera [76]
  Sudan 2004   Ebola  
  Mali 2005   yellow fever [77]
19 Singapore 2005 2005 dengue outbreak in Singapore dengue fever [78]
  Luanda, Angola 2006   cholera [79]
  Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo 2006   plague  
  India 2006   malaria [80]
> 50 India 2006 2006 dengue outbreak in India dengue fever [81]
  India 2006 Chikungunya outbreaks Chikungunya virus [82]
> 50 Pakistan 2006 2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan dengue fever [83]
  Philippines 2006   dengue fever  
  Democratic Republic of Congo 2007 Mweka ebola epidemic Ebola [84]
  Ethiopia 2007   cholera [85]
49 India 2008   cholera [86]
10 Iraq 2007 2007 Iraq cholera outbreak cholera [87]
  Nigeria 2007   Poliomyelitis [88]
  Puerto Rico; Dominican Republic; Mexico 2007   dengue fever [89]
  Somalia 2007   cholera [90]
  Uganda 2007   Ebola  
  Vietnam 2007   cholera [91]
  Brazil 2008   dengue fever  
  Cambodia 2008   dengue fever [92]
  Chad 2008   cholera [93]
  China 2008   hand, foot and mouth disease  
  Madagascar 2008   bubonic plague [94]
  Philippines 2008   dengue fever [95]
  Vietnam 2008   cholera [96]
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 [97]
  worldwide 2009 Mumps outbreaks in the 2000s mumps  
  Worldwide 2009 2009 flu pandemic influenza [98]
931 West Africa 2009–2010 2009–2010 West African meningitis outbreak meningitis [99]
14,286 worldwide 2009 2009 flu pandemic influenza [100][101]
9,985 (May 2017) Hispaniola 2010–present Haiti cholera outbreak cholera [102][103]
> 4,500 (February 2014) Congo 2011–present   measles [104][105]
170 Vietnam 2011–present   hand, foot and mouth disease [106][107]
> 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 [108]
449 (as of 11 June 2015) Worldwide 2012–present 2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak Middle East respiratory syndrome [109]
≫ 11,300 West Africa 2013–2016 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa Ebola virus disease
Ebola virus virion. https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?curid=1302736
 
Ebola virus virion
[110][111]
183 Americas 2013–2015 2013–14 chikungunya outbreak Chikungunya [112]
40 Madagascar 2014–present 2014 Madagascar plague outbreak Bubonic plague [113]
36 India 2014–present 2014 Odisha jaundice outbreak primarily Hepatitis E, but also Hepatitis A [114]
2,035 India 2015–present 2015 Indian swine flu outbreak Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 [115][116][117]
  worldwide 2015–present 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic Zika virus  
Hundreds (as of 1 April 2016) Africa 2016 2016 yellow fever outbreak in Angola yellow fever [118]
1,614 (as of 4 July 2017) Yemen 2016–present 2016–17 Yemen cholera outbreak cholera  
64 (as of 16 August 2017) India 2017–present 2017 Gorakhpur Japanese encephalitis outbreak Japanese encephalitis  
12 (as of May 2018) India 2018–present 2018 Nipah virus outbreak Nipah virus infection  

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