The ten pandemics that have made history
Pandemics
- 1968 - 1969Hong Kong Influenza (H3N2) Number of deaths: nearly 1 million
Disease outbreak: Hong Kong
* In 1968 a vaccine was developed - 1956 - 1958Asian Influenza (H2N2) Number of deaths: 4 million
Disease outbreak: Japan - 1980 - to dateAIDS Number of deaths: 36 million
Number of people affected: 75 million to-date
Disease outbreak: Kinshasa (RD Congo)
Other names of the disease: HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - 1918-1919Spanish Influenza (H1N1) Number of deaths: 50 to 100 million
Number of people affected: almost one third of the global population
Disease outbreak: China (the virus mutates in Boston, USA) - 1817 - 1991Cholera (7 pandemics) Number of deaths: between 21 000 and 143 000 people per year
Number of people affected: 1.3 to 4 million per year
Disease outbreak: India - 1648 - 21th centuryYellow fever (several waves) Number of deaths:
- Philadelphia (United States) - 1793: 5.000 deaths, that is 10% of the population
- Gibraltar - 1805: one third of the population
- Barcelona (Spain) - 1821: 20 000 deaths
- Mississippi - 1878: 13 000 deaths
- New Orleans (United States) - 1905: 8 399 cases reported including 908 deaths
- Ethiopia - 1960 to 1962: 30 000 deaths
- Senegal - 1965: Several hundred deaths
- Africa and South America - 2010: 20 000 to 60 000 deaths
Disease outbreak: tropical regions of the Americas
Other names of the disease: Vomito-Negro, American plague - 1347 - 1353 and the second half of the 19th centuryBlack Death Number of deaths: 50 million, 25 million of which in Europe
Disease outbreak: India or China
* First introduction of quarantine - 6th - 8th centuryJustinian plague (about 20 waves) Number of deaths: 25 to 100 million / 10 000 deaths per day
Disease outbreak: Egypt or Central Asia
Other names of the disease: pestis inguinaria, pestis glandularia, bubonic plague - 165 - 189Antonine plague Number of deaths: 10 million
Disease outbreak: Mesopotamia
Other names of the disease: galenic plague, smallpox - 500 B.C.Typhoid fever Number of deaths: nearly 50 000
Number of people affected: 200 000
Disease outbreak: Northern Africa
Other name for the disease: Athens plague
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