|
In Sickness And In
Health
|
Epidemics and When they Happened
1657 |
Boston |
Measles |
1687 |
Boston |
Measles |
1690 |
New York |
Yellow Fever |
|
1713 |
Boston |
Measles |
1729 |
Boston |
Measles |
1732-33 |
Worldwide |
Influenza |
1738 |
South Carolina |
Smallpox |
1739-40 |
Boston |
Measles |
1747 |
Conn., NY, PA & SC |
Measles |
1759 |
North America |
Influenza |
1761 |
North America & West Indies |
Influenza |
1772 |
North America |
Measles |
1775 |
New England |
unknown Epidemic |
1775-76 |
Worldwide |
Influenza
(very bad) |
1788 |
Philadelphia and NY |
Measles |
1793 |
Vermont |
Influenza and a "putrid fever" |
1794 |
Philadelphia |
Yellow Fever |
1796-97 |
Philadelphia |
Yellow Fever |
1798 |
Philadelphia |
Yellow Fever |
|
1803 |
New York |
Yellow Fever |
1820-23 |
Nationwide |
"fever" |
1831-32 |
Nationwide |
Asiatic Cholera |
1832 |
New York
& other major cities |
Cholera |
1833 |
Columbus, OH |
Cholera |
1834 |
New York City |
Cholera |
1837 |
Philadelphia |
Typhus |
1841 |
Nationwide
(especially severe in South) |
Yellow fever |
1847 |
New Orleans |
Yellow fever |
1847-48 |
Worldwide |
Influenza |
1848-49 |
North America |
Cholera |
1849 |
New York |
Cholera |
1850 |
Nationwide |
Yellow Fever |
1850-51 |
North America |
Influenza |
1851 |
Coles County, IL |
Cholera |
1851 |
The Great Plains States |
Cholera |
1851 |
Missouri |
Cholera |
1852 |
Nationwide
(New Orleans
8,000 die in summer) |
Yellow fever |
1855 |
Nationwide |
Yellow fever |
1857-59 |
Worldwide |
Influenza |
1860-61 |
Pennsylvania |
Smallpox |
1865-73 |
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis
& Washington DC |
A series of reoccuring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid,
Scarlet fever & Yellow Fever |
1873-75 |
North America & Europe |
Influenza |
1878 |
New Orleans |
Yellow Fever |
1885 |
Plymouth, PA |
Typhoid |
1886 |
Jacksonville, FL |
Yellow Fever |
|
1918 |
Worldwide
More people hospitalized in World War I for Influenza than wounds.
US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some
camps. |
Influenza |
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