WORLDWIDE EPIDEMICS

 

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WORLDWIDE EPIDEMICS

 

Time Line Place Type Outcome 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 1873-1875 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 Influenza 25,000,000 dead 1949 Nationwide Polio 2,720 die & 42,173 cases reported 1952 Nationwide Polio 3,300 die & 57,000 cases reported