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x Plague of Athens      
The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic which hit the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC), when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach. It is believed to have entered Athens...
x Antonine Plague Greek physician Galen wrote about the plague    
The Antonine Plague, AD 165-180, also known as the Plague of Galen, who described it, was an ancient pandemic, either of smallpox or measles, brought back to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East. The epidemic claimed...
x Italian Plague of 1629-1631   Bubonic plague  
The Italian Plague of 1629–1631 was a series of outbreaks of bubonic plague which occurred from 1629 through 1631 in northern Italy. This epidemic, often referred to as Great Plague of Milan, claimed the lives of approximately 280,000 people, with...
x Third Pandemic World distribution of plague 1998 Bubonic plague  
Third Pandemic is the designation of a major plague pandemic that began in the Yunnan province in China in 1855. This episode of bubonic plague spread to all inhabited continents, and ultimately killed more than 12 million people in India and China...
x Plague Riot Chumbunt Bubonic plague  
Plague Riot (Чумной бунт in Russian) was a riot in Moscow in 1771 between September 26 and September 28, caused by an outbreak of bubonic plague. The first signs of plague in Moscow appeared in late 1770, which would turn into a major epidemic in...
x Great Plague of 1738      
The Great Plague of 1738 was an outbreak of the bubonic plague between 1738-1740 that affected areas in the modern nations of Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, and Austria. Although no exact figure is available, the epidemic likely killed...
x Great Plague of London Bill of Mortality    
The Great Plague (1665-1666) was a massive outbreak of disease in the Kingdom of England that killed an estimated 100,000 people, 20% of London's population. The disease is identified as bubonic plague, an infection by the bacterium Yersinia pestis,...
x Great Plague of Marseille Engraving-Great-Plague-Marseille-Belsunce Bubonic plague  
The Great Plague of Marseille was one of the most significant European outbreaks of bubonic plague in the early 18th century. Arriving in Marseille, France in 1720, the disease killed 100,000 people in the city and the surrounding provinces. However...
x Great Plague of Seville PesteSevilla Bubonic plague 150,000
The Great Plague of Seville (1647–1652) was a massive outbreak of disease in Spain that killed up to a quarter of Seville's population. Unlike the plague of 1596–1602 which claimed 600,000 to 700,000 lives, or a little under 8% of the population,...
x Great Plague of Vienna A plague hospital in Vienna 1679. Contemporary engraving    
The Great Plague of Vienna occurred in 1679 in Vienna, Austria, the imperial residence of the Austrian Habsburg rulers. From contemporary descriptions, the disease is believed to have been bubonic plague, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia...
x 2007 Iraq cholera outbreak      
A lack of clean drinking water in Iraq in 2007 has led to an outbreak of cholera. According to Dr. Ryadh Abdul Ameer, the director of the Basra health ministry, basic water sterilization has become impossible in some places due to restrictions on...
x 2008 Democratic Republic of the Congo cholera outbreak      
A lack of clean drinking water in the refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 led to an outbreak of cholera. Early reports suggested that there have been as many as 80 people infected.
x 2008–2009 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak      
The 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak is an ongoing cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe that began in August 2008, swept across the country and spread to Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia. By 23 July 2009 there had been 98,592 reported cases and...
x 1837–1838 smallpox epidemic      
The smallpox epidemic that ravaged the people of the Great Plains in 1837 and 1838 was believed to have begun in spring of 1837 when a deckhand became ill aboard an American Fur Company steamboat named S.S. St. Peter. The steamboat traveling up the...
x 1925 serum run to Nome Statue of an anonymous sleddog, located in Anchorage. This statue is often mistaken to be of Balto    
During the 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the "Great Race of Mercy", 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs relayed diphtheria antitoxin 674 miles (1,085 km) by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska in a record-breaking five and a half...
x 1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia Smallpox PHIL 2003 lores Smallpox  
The 1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia was the last major outbreak of smallpox in Europe. It was centred in Kosovo and Belgrade, Serbia (both then part of SFR Yugoslavia). A Muslim pilgrim had contracted the smallpox virus in the Middle East....
x 1974 smallpox epidemic in India      
The 1974 smallpox epidemic of India was one of the worst smallpox epidemics of 20th century. At least 15,000 people died of smallpox between January to May 1974, mainly in the Indian states of Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal. There were thousands who...
x 1994 plague epidemic in Surat      
In 1994, there was a pneumonic plague epidemic in Surat, India that resulted in 52 deaths and in a large internal migration of about 300,000 residents, who fled fearing quarantine . A combination of heavy monsoon rain and clogged sewers led to...
x Mumbai plague epidemic      
The Mumbai plague epidemic was a bubonic plague epidemic that stuck the city of Mumbai (Bombay) in the late nineteenth century. The plague killed thousands, and many fled the city leading to a drastic fall in the population of the city. The rapid...
x Plague of Cyprian      
The Plague of Cyprian is the name given to a pandemic, probably of smallpox, that afflicted the Roman Empire from AD 251 onwards. It was still raging in 270, when it claimed the life of emperor Claudius II Gothicus (ruled 268-70). The plague caused...
x Plague of Justinian   Bubonic plague  
The Plague of Justinian was a pandemic that afflicted the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), including its capital Constantinople, in the years 541–542 AD. The most commonly accepted cause of the pandemic is bubonic plague, which later became...
x First cholera pandemic   Cholera  
The first cholera pandemic, also known as the first Asiatic cholera pandemic or Asiatic cholera, lasted from 1817 to 1824. While cholera had spread across India many times previously, this outbreak went further; it reached as far as China and the...
x Second cholera pandemic   Cholera  
The second cholera pandemic also known as the Asiatic Cholera Pandemic was a Cholera pandemic from 1829-1851 reached Europe, London and Paris in 1832. This pandemic began, like the first, with outbreaks along the Ganges River delta. From there the...
x Third cholera pandemic   Cholera  
The third cholera pandemic was an outbreak of cholera that occurred from 1852-1860, and mainly affected Russia, with over a million deaths. In 1853-1854, London's epidemic claimed over 10,000 lives with 23,000 deaths for all of Britain.
x Fourth cholera pandemic   Cholera  
The fourth cholera pandemic was the fourth major pandemic of cholera that spread from 1863-1875 began in the Bengal region when Indian Muslim pilgrims visiting Mecca spread the disease through the Middle East.
x Fifth cholera pandemic   Cholera  
The fifth cholera pandemic was the fifth major outbreak of cholera that occurred in the years 1881-1896 starting in India. The 1892 outbreak in Hamburg, Germany was the only major European outbreak; about 8,600 people died in Hamburg. Although...
x Sixth cholera pandemic   Cholera  
The sixth cholera pandemic was a major outbreak of cholera from the years 1899 to 1923. It killed more than 800,000 in India then erupted in the Middle East, northern Africa, Russia and Eastern Europe. The last outbreak in the United States was in...
x Seventh cholera pandemic   Cholera  
The seventh cholera pandemic was the seventh major outbreak of cholera and occurred from the years 1961 to the 1970s and has continued (though much diminished) to the present. The outbreak began in Indonesia, called El Tor after the strain, and...
x Spanish flu W curve Influenza 500,000,000
The 1918 flu pandemic (commonly referred to as the Spanish Flu) was an influenza pandemic that spread to nearly every part of the world. It was caused by an unusually virulent and deadly influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. Historical and...
x 2006 H5N1 outbreak in India      
The first reports of bird flu in India came from the village of Nawapur in the Nandurbar district of Maharashtra on 19 February 2006. Villagers reported a large number of bird deaths in the village. Maharashtra State Animal Husbandry Ministry...
x 2008 H5N1 outbreak in West Bengal      
The 2008 bird flu outbreak in West Bengal is an occurrence of avian influenza in West Bengal, India that began on January 16, 2008. The infection was caused by the H5N1 subtype of the Influenza A virus and occurred in at least thirteen districts,...
x 2006 North American E. coli outbreak Spinach    
The 2006 North American E. coli outbreak was an outbreak, in two principal phases, of foodborne E. coli O157:H7, a potentially deadly bacterium that can cause bloody diarrhea and dehydration. The initial outbreak occurred in September 2006 and...
x 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak Prairie dans laquelle le bétail broutait avant que la maladie ne se déclare.    
An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom was confirmed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), on 3 August 2007, in the parish of Normandy, Surrey. The outbreak was centred on a field being used for beef...
x 2007 Australian equine influenza outbreak Mount Lindesay is located in New South Wales    
An outbreak of equine influenza (EI) in Australia was confirmed by the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries on 24 August 2007 in Sydney. Also known as "horse flu" and "A1 influenza", the rapid outbreak was of the Influenza A virus strain...
x Chikungunya Outbreak of 2004-Present      
An analysis of the virus's genetic code suggests that the increased severity of the 2005-present outbreak may be due to a change in the genetic sequence, altering the virus' coat protein, which potentially allows it to multiply more easily in...
x 2001 UK foot and mouth crisis Notice telling people to keep off the North York Moors    
The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom in the spring and summer of 2001 caused a crisis in British agriculture and tourism. This epizootic saw 2,000 cases of the disease in farms in most of the British countryside. Over 10...
x 2007 Central Luzon hog cholera outbreak      
An outbreak of classical swine fever (hog cholera) in the Philippine region of Central Luzon, particularly the provinces of Pampanga and Bulacan occurred in mid-2007, the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) confirmed. Bulacan, which lies...
x 2006 Dengue outbreak in India Aedes aegypti    
Cases of dengue fever were reported first from New Delhi in early September and by end of September other states in India also started to report deaths due to dengue fever. Government of India's Heath Department released the statistical data related...
x BCG disease outbreak in Finland in the 2000's      
BCG disease is an adverse effect of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine. The vaccine contains living mycobacterium tuberculosis bovis, and in BCG disease, the bacterium causes a diseases in persons vaccinated. Between 2000 and 2006, several hundred...
x 2007 Bernard Matthews H5N1 outbreak 2007-Map-Avianflu-zones    
The 2007 Bernard Matthews H5N1 outbreak was an occurrence of avian influenza in England caused by the H5N1 subtype of Influenza virus A that began on 30 January 2007. The infection affected poultry at one of Bernard Matthews' farms in Holton in...
x 2005 dengue outbreak in Singapore Aedes aegypti    
In the 2005 dengue outbreak in Singapore, a significant rise in the number of dengue fever cases was reported in Singapore, becoming the country's worst health crisis since the 2003 SARS epidemic. In October 2005, there were signs that the dengue...
x 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak Jalapenyo    
The 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak began in the spring of 2008 when hundreds of people throughout the United States fell ill after consuming contaminated food. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration currently believes that the contaminated...
x 2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan Aedes aegypti    
In the 2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan, a significant rise in the number of dengue fever cases was reported in Pakistan, becoming the country's worst health crisis; there are signs that the infectious disease is spreading to different parts of the...
x Measles outbreaks in the 2000s      
Measles outbreaks in the 2000s refers to incidents of measles outbreaks from 2000–2009. Vaccination is hoped to eventually eradicate measles, however, a controversy regarding a popular measles vaccine has led to reduced vaccination coverage during...
x Mumps outbreaks in the 2000s      
Mumps outbreaks in the 2000s refers to mumps outbreaks occurring from 2000 through 2009. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dalhousie University was struck with an outbreak of the mumps confirmed in many students with suspected cases in...
x 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak 2008 listeriosis outbreak    
The 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak was a widespread outbreak of listeriosis in Canada linked to a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto, Ontario. Twenty-three people died and there were 57 total confirmed cases. Listeriosis is an infection caused by...
x Derby plague of 1665 Headless cross1 Bubonic plague  
During the Great Plague of 1665 the area of Derby, England fell victim to the bubonic plague epidemic, with many deaths. Some areas of Derby still carry names that record the 1665 visitation such as Blagreaves Lane which was Black Graves Lane, while...
x Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Arch Street Ferry Yellow fever  
The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 is believed to have killed several thousand people in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The yellow fever epidemic struck the city when it was the capital of the United States and a major seaport. The summer...
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