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List of epidemics Duration Human history
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.
15th century and earlier
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
75,000–100,000
Greece
429–426 BC
Plague of Athens
unknown, possibly typhus , typhoid fever or viral hemorrhagic fever
[1] [2] [3]
5 million; 30% of population in some areas
Europe, Western Asia, Northern Africa
165–180
Antonine Plague
unknown, symptoms similar to smallpox
[4]
Europe
250–266
Plague of Cyprian
unknown, possibly smallpox
[5]
25–50 million; 40% of population
Europe, Egypt, West Asia
541–542
Plague of Justinian
plague
[6]
Rome
590
Roman Plague of 590
plague
[7]
> 100,000
Ctesiphon , Persia
628
plague
[8]
British Isles
664–689
Plague of 664
plague
[9] [page needed ]
Japan
735–737
735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic
Smallpox
[10] [11]
Byzantine Empire, West Asia, Africa
746–747
plague
[12]
75–200 million; 30–60% of population
Europe, Asia and North Africa
1331–1353
Black Death
plague Yersinia pestis
[13]
16–17th centuries
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
5–15 million (80% of population)
Mexico
1545–1548
Cocoliztli Epidemic of 1545–1548
Possibly Salmonella enterica
[14] [15] [16] [17]
Over 20,100 Londoners died.
London
1563–1564
1563 London plague
plague
2–2.5 million (50% of population)
Mexico
1576–1580
Cocoliztli epidemic of 1576
Possibly Salmonella enterica
[14] [15] [16] [17]
Seneca nation
1592–1596
measles
[18]
Over 19,900 people died in London and outer parishes
London
1592–1593
1592–93 London plague
plague
Spain
1596–1602
plague
[19]
South America
1600–1650
malaria
England
1603
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 .
[20] [21]
280,000
Italy
1629–1631
Italian plague of 1629–1631
plague
[22]
Wyandot people
1630
smallpox
Thirteen Colonies
1633
smallpox
Thirteen Colonies
1634
smallpox
England
1636
plague
China
1641–1644
plague
[23]
Spain
1647–1652
Great Plague of Seville
plague
South America
1648
yellow fever
Italy
1656
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1657
measles
24,148[24]
Netherlands
1663–1664
plague
100,000[25]
England
1665–1666
Great Plague of London
plague
[26]
40,000
France
1668
plague
Spain
1676–1685
plague
76,000
Austria
1679
Great Plague of Vienna
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1687
measles
Thirteen Colonies
1690
yellow fever
18th century
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
Canada , New France
1702–1703
smallpox
[27]
> 18,000 (36% of population)
Iceland
1707–1709
Great Smallpox Epidemic
Smallpox
Sweden
1710–1712
Great Northern War plague outbreak
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1713
measles
Thirteen Colonies
1713–1715
measles
Canada , New France
1714–1715
measles
[28]
France
1720–1722
plague
[29]
Thirteen Colonies
1721–1722
smallpox
[30]
Thirteen Colonies
1729
measles
Spain
1730
yellow fever
Thirteen Colonies
1732–1733
influenza
[31]
Canada , New France
1733
smallpox
[32]
> 50,000
Balkans
1738
Great Plague of 1738
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1738
smallpox
Thirteen Colonies
1739–1740
measles
Italy
1743
plague
Thirteen Colonies
1747
measles
North America
1755–1756
smallpox
North America
1759
measles
North America , West Indies
1761
influenza
North America , present-day Pittsburgh area.
1763
Smallpox
> 50,000
Russia
1770–1772
Russian plague of 1770–1772
plague
Pacific Northwest natives
1770s
smallpox
[33]
North America
1772
measles
> 2,000,000
Persia
1772
plague
[8]
North America
1775
unknown cause
England
1775–1776
influenza
[34]
Spain
1778
dengue fever
Plains Indians
1780–1782
North American smallpox epidemic
smallpox
[35]
Pueblo Indians
1788
smallpox
United States
1788
measles
New South Wales, Australia
1789–1790
smallpox
[36]
United States
1793
influenza and epidemic typhus
United States
1793
influenza
United States
1793–1798
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 , resurgences
yellow fever
[37]
19th century
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
Spain
1800–1803
yellow fever
[38]
Ottoman Empire , Egypt
1801
bubonic plague
[39]
United States
1803
yellow fever
Egypt
1812
plague
Ottoman Empire
1812
plague
Malta
1813
plague
Romania
1813
plague
Ireland
1816–1819
typhus
> 100,000
Asia , Europe
1816–1826
First cholera pandemic
cholera
[40]
United States
1820–1823
fever [ambiguous ]
Spain
1821
yellow fever
[41]
New South Wales, Australia
1828
smallpox
[42]
Netherlands
1829
Groningen epidemic
malaria
South Australia
1829
smallpox
[43]
Iran
1829–1835
bubonic plague
[44]
> 100,000
Asia , Europe , North America
1829–1851
Second cholera pandemic
cholera
[40]
Egypt
1831
cholera
[45] [46]
Plains Indians
1831–1834
smallpox
England , France
1832
cholera
North America
1832
cholera
United States
1833
cholera
United States
1834
cholera
Egypt
1834–1836
bubonic plague
[45] [46]
United States
1837
typhus
Great Plains
1837–1838
1837–38 smallpox epidemic
smallpox
[47]
Dalmatia
1840
plague
South Africa
1840
smallpox
United States
1841
yellow fever
> 20,000
Canada
1847–1848
Typhus epidemic of 1847
epidemic typhus
[48]
United States
1847
yellow fever
Worldwide
1847–1848
influenza
[49]
Egypt
1848
cholera
[45] [46]
North America
1848–1849
cholera
United States
1850
yellow fever
North America
1850–1851
influenza
United States
1851
cholera
United States
1852
yellow fever
1,000,000
Russia
1852–1860
Third cholera pandemic
cholera
[40]
Ottoman Empire
1853
plague
[50]
4,737
Copenhagen , Denmark
1853
Cholera epidemic of Copenhagen 1853
cholera
[51]
616
England
1854
Broad Street cholera outbreak
cholera
[52]
United States
1855
yellow fever
Worldwide
1855–1960
Third plague pandemic
bubonic plague
[53]
Portugal
1857
yellow fever
Victoria , Australia
1857
smallpox
[54]
Europe , North America , South America
1857–1859
influenza
[55]
Middle East
1863–1879
Fourth cholera pandemic
cholera
[40]
Egypt
1865
cholera
[45] [46]
Russia , Germany
1866–1867
cholera
Australia
1867
measles
Iraq
1867
plague
[56]
Argentina
1852–1871
yellow fever
[57]
Germany
1870–1871
smallpox
40,000
Fiji
1875
measles
[58]
Russian Empire
1877
plague
[59]
Egypt
1881
cholera
[45] [46]
> 9,000
India , Germany
1881–1896
Fifth cholera pandemic
cholera
[40]
3,164
Montreal
1885
smallpox
timeline
1,000,000
Worldwide
1889–1890
1889–1890 flu pandemic
influenza
[60]
20th century
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
Congo Basin
1896–1906
trypanosomiasis
[61]
> 800,000
Europe , Asia , Africa
1899–1923
Sixth cholera pandemic
cholera
[40]
113
San Francisco
1900–1904
Third plague pandemic
bubonic plague
[62]
West Africa
1900
yellow fever
Uganda
1900–1920
trypanosomiasis
[63]
Egypt
1902
cholera
[45] [46]
India
1903
plague
[64]
4
Fremantle
1903
bubonic plague
[65]
40,000
China
1910–1912
bubonic plague
[66]
up to 100,000,000
worldwide
1918–1920
Spanish flu
influenza Spanish Flu Virus
[67]
Russia
1918–1922
typhus
Egypt
1942–1944
malaria
[45] [46]
China
1946
bubonic plague
Egypt
1946
relapsing fever
[45] [46]
Egypt
1947
cholera
[45] [46]
2,000,000
worldwide
1957–1958
Asian flu
influenza
[68]
worldwide
1961–1975
Seventh cholera pandemic
cholera
[40]
4
Sweden
1963
smallpox
[69] [70]
1,000,000
worldwide
1968–1969
Hong Kong flu
influenza
[68]
5
Netherlands
1971
poliomyelitis
[71]
35
Yugoslavia
1972
1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia
smallpox
United States
1972–1973
London flu
influenza
[72]
15,000
India
1974
1974 smallpox epidemic of India
smallpox
> 30,000,000
worldwide (commenced in Congo Basin )
1960–present
HIV/AIDS pandemic
HIV/AIDS
[73]
South America
1990s
cholera
52
India
1994
1994 plague epidemic in Surat
plague
[74]
231
worldwide
1996-2001
vCJD
West Africa
1996
meningitis
Central America
2000
dengue fever
[75]
21st century
Death toll (estimate)
Location
Date
Article
Disease
Ref.
Nigeria
2001
cholera
[76]
South Africa
2001
cholera
[77]
775
Asia
2002–2003
SARS
SARS coronavirus
Algeria
2003
plague
[78]
Afghanistan
2004
Leishmaniasis
[79]
Bangladesh
2004
Cholera
[80]
Indonesia
2004
dengue fever
Senegal
2004
cholera
[81]
Sudan
2004
Ebola
Mali
2005
yellow fever
[82]
19
Singapore
2005
2005 dengue outbreak in Singapore
dengue fever
[83]
Luanda , Angola
2006
cholera
[84]
Ituri Province , Democratic Republic of the Congo
2006
plague
India
2006
malaria
[85]
> 50
India
2006
2006 dengue outbreak in India
dengue fever
[86]
India
2006
Chikungunya outbreaks
Chikungunya virus
[87]
> 50
Pakistan
2006
2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan
dengue fever
[88]
Philippines
2006
dengue fever
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2007
Mweka ebola epidemic
Ebola
[89]
Ethiopia
2007
cholera
[90]
49
India
2008
cholera
[91]
10
Iraq
2007
2007 Iraq cholera outbreak
cholera
[92]
Nigeria
2007
Poliomyelitis
[93]
Puerto Rico ; Dominican Republic ; Mexico
2007
dengue fever
[94]
Somalia
2007
cholera
[95]
Uganda
2007
Ebola
Vietnam
2007
cholera
[96]
Brazil
2008
dengue fever
Cambodia
2008
dengue fever
[97]
Chad
2008
cholera
[98]
China
2008
hand, foot and mouth disease
Madagascar
2008
bubonic plague
[99]
Philippines
2008
dengue fever
[100]
Vietnam
2008
cholera
[101]
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
[102]
worldwide
2009
Mumps outbreaks in the 2000s
mumps
931
West Africa
2009–2010
2009–2010 West African meningitis outbreak
meningitis
[103]
14,286
worldwide
2009
2009 flu pandemic
influenza
[104] [105]
9,985 (May 2017)
Hispaniola
2010–present
Haiti cholera outbreak
cholera
[106] [107]
> 4,500 (February 2014)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2011–present
measles
[108] [109]
170
Vietnam
2011–present
hand, foot and mouth disease
[110] [111]
> 350
Pakistan
2011–present
2011 dengue outbreak in Pakistan
dengue fever
847 (as of 10 January 2013[update] )
Darfur Sudan
2012
2012 yellow fever outbreak in Darfur, Sudan
yellow fever
[112]
449 (as of 11 June 2015[update] )
Worldwide
2012–present
2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak
Middle East respiratory syndrome
[113]
>> 11,300
West Africa
2013–2016
Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
Ebola virus disease Ebola virus virion
[114] [115]
183
Americas
2013–2015
2013–14 chikungunya outbreak
Chikungunya
[116]
40
Madagascar
2014–present
2014 Madagascar plague outbreak
Bubonic plague
[117]
36
India
2014–present
2014 Odisha jaundice outbreak
primarily Hepatitis E , but also Hepatitis A
[118]
2,035
India
2015–present
2015 Indian swine flu outbreak
Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
[119] [120] [121]
worldwide
2015–present
2015–16 Zika virus epidemic
Zika virus
Hundreds (as of 1 April 2016[update] )
Africa
2016
2016 yellow fever outbreak in Angola
yellow fever
[122]
1,614 (as of 4 July 2017[update] )
Yemen
2016–present
2016–17 Yemen cholera outbreak
cholera
64 (as of 16 August 2017[update] )
India
2017–present
2017 Gorakhpur Japanese encephalitis outbreak
Japanese encephalitis
17 (as of June 2018[update] )
India
2018–present
2018 Nipah virus outbreak
Nipah virus infection
2,195 (as of 17 November 2019[update] )
Democratic Republic of the Congo & Uganda
August 2018–present
2018-19 Kivu Ebola epidemic
Ebola virus disease
[123] [124]
1
Mozambique
March 2019–present
Cholera
[125]
"nearly" 5,000 (by November 2019)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2019
2019 measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Measles
[126]
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