Epidemics

6th Century	Europe	Bubonic Plague	This outbreak combined with those in the 14th & 17th Centuries claim 137,000,000
1332	India	Bubonic Plague	Origin of the Pandemic
1346-1348	World Wide	Bubonic Plague
1348-1351	Europe, France, Tunis, Norway, Scotland, Prussia, Iceland & Italy	Bubonic Plague
1485, 1508 & 1517	England	The Sweat	Brought from Rouen by mercenaries recruited to help Henry Tutor. Death occurred within 24 hours.
1520-1527	Mexico Central America South America	Smallpox	Kills millions of native inhabitants of Mexico. Introduced at Veracruz with the arrival of Panfilo de Narvaez on April 23, 1520 & was credited with the victory of Cortes over the Aztec empire at Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City) in 1521. Kills the Inca ruler, Huayna Capac, & 200,000 others & destroys the Incan Empire.
1540	Southeastern US	"European Epidemic"	Desoto expedition brings to this continent. Killed 75% of the native population
1563	London, England	Bubonic Plague	Worst outbreak ever, killing an estimated quarter to a third of the population. Subsequent outbreaks in 1578, 1593, 1603, 1625, 1636 & 1665, killing thousands. In terms of proportion of the total population destroyed, the 1563 and 1665 epidemics were the worst.
1592-1596	New York	Measles	Kills hundreds possibly thousands of Seneca Indians
1617-1619	North America northern east coast	Smallpox	Killed 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Indians
1633-1634	England	Smallpox
1657	Boston, MA	Measles
1674	Cherokee Tribe	"European Epidemic"	Death count unknown. Population in 1674 about 50,000. After 1729, 1738, & 1753 smallpox epidemics their population was only 25,000 when they were forced to Oklahoma on the Trail Of Tears
1677-1678	Boston, MA	Smallpox	1/5 of the town died
1687	Boston, MA	Measles
1690	New York	Yellow Fever
1692	Boston, MA	Smallpox
1699	Philadelphia, PA, Charleston, SC	Yellow Fever
1702-1703	St. Lawrence Valley, NY	Smallpox
1713	Boston, MA	Measles
1721	Boston, MA	Smallpox
1729	Boston, MA	Measles
1732-1733	World Wide	Influenza
1735-1740	New England	Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria	Hundreds die-mostly children
1736	Pennsylvania	Smallpox
1738	South Carolina	Smallpox
1739-40	Boston, MA	Measles
1747	Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania & South Carolina	Measles
1759	North America	Measles	Predominantly found in the white population
1761	North America & West Indies	Influenza
1764	Boston, MA	Scarlet Fever
1770's	West Coast of North America	Smallpox	Kills out 30% of the West Coast Native Americans
1772	North America	Measles
1774-1776	World Wide	Influenza	Extremely severe outbreak
1775	North America	Unknown Epidemic	Especially affects New England
1781-1783	Great Lakes	Smallpox
1783	Dover, DE	Bilious Disorder	"Extremely Fatal"
1787	Maine	Scarlet Fever
1788	Philadelphia, PA & New York	Measles
1792-1799	Charleston, SC Philadelphia, PA New Haven, CT New York NY Baltimore, MD Washington DC	Yellow Fever	The outbreak in Philadelphia in the summer of 1793 was the most severe. Ten percent of the population in that city died, about 5,000 people altogether. The new city of Washington DC was under construction at the time, and Philadelphia was the interim capital. Most of the government officials fled the city, including George Washington and the members of his cabinet. Cold weather finally brought an end to the outbreak, in late October.
1793	Vermont	"Putrid Fever" and Influenza	500 dead in 5 counties in 4 weeks
1793	Harrisburg & Middleton, PA	Unknown Epidemic	Many Unexplained Deaths
1793-1794	Philadelphia, PA	Yellow Fever	Over 4,000 dead
1795	New York	Yellow Fever
1796-1798	Philadelphia, PA	Yellow Fever
1803	New York	Yellow Fever
1813	Maury Co., TN	Black Tongue	Several Die
1820	Wisconsin	Measles	Native American Settlements
1820-1823	North America	Fever
1829-1833	Pacific Northwest	Malaria	Kills 150,000 Native Americans
1831-1832	North America	Asiatic Cholera	Brought by English Emigrants
1832-1834	New York City, Columbus, OH & other major cities	Cholera
1837	Philadelphia, PA	Typhus
1841	North America	Yellow Fever	Worse in the South
1847	New Orleans	Yellow Fever
1847-1848	World Wide	Influenza
1848-1849	North America	Cholera	4,000 dead in New York City in 1848
1849	New York City	Cholera
1850	North America	Yellow Fever
1850-1851	North America	Influenza
1851	Coles Co., IL The Great Plains & Missouri	Cholera
1852-1853	North America	Yellow Fever	8,000 dead in New Orleans that summer
1855	North America	Yellow Fever
1857-1859	World Wide	Influenza	Extremely severe outbreak
1860-1861	Pennsylvania	Smallpox
1861-1862	Richmond, VA	Scarlet Fever
1861-1865			Epidemics of dysentery, typhoid fever, hepatitis, malaria, smallpox, measles, and venereal diseases. More than three times as many soldiers died of infectious disease than died of battle wounds.
1861-1865	North America	Typhoid	187,000 dead. This is also period of The Civil War
1862	Florida	Scarlet Fever
1863	New Orleans, LA	Yellow Fever
1865-1873	Philadelphia, PA, New York, Boston, MA & New Orleans, LA	Smallpox	Same period of time, in Washington DC, Baltimore, MD, Memphis, TN Cholera & a series of recurring epidemics of Typhus, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever
1873	Kentucky	Cholera	On 13 July 1876, the President of the United States, U. S. Grant transmitted to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, a report of the epidemic of 1873 in an effort to find the cause of cholera.
1873-1875	North America & Europe	Influenza
1873	Nebraska	Diphtheria
1877	Los Angeles, CA	Smallpox
1878	New Orleans, LA & Memphis, TN	Yellow Fever	Last Great Epidemic of Yellow Fever. More than 5,000 fatalities & 25,000 in "crazed flight" in Memphis. 13,000 die in the lower Mississippi Valley
1885	Plymouth, PA	Typhoid
1886	Jacksonville, FL	Yellow Fever
1890-1892	Waterbury, CT & Chicago, IL	Typhoid
1898	Cuba	Yellow Fever	5,000 soldiers die of Yellow Fever during the Spanish American War. Only 968 die in combat.
1899	Harrisburg, PA	Typhoid
1900	San Francisco, CA	Bubonic Plague
1902-1903	Maine	Typhoid
1903	Connecticut	Scarlet Fever
1903	Ithaca, NY	Typhoid
1905	Charlottesville, VA	Scarlet Fever
1915	New York	Typhoid
1916	North America	Polio	7,000 died & 27,000 cases reported
1916	Illinois	Typhoid
1918	Worldwide	Spanish Influenza	25,000,000 dead - some reports lists the fatality numbers as 50,000,000 dead
1949	Nationwide	Polio	2,720 die & 42,173 cases reported
1952	Nationwide	Polio	3,300 die & 57,000 cases reported
1957-1958	Worldwide	Asian Influenza	70,000 die in the US alone
1968	Worldwide	Hong Kong Influenza	1,000,000 die - first appeared in Hong Kong where an estimated 500,000 cases were reported
2009	Worldwide	Swine Flu Influenza renamed H1N1	Worldwide - cases currently evolving across the globe