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The ten pandemics that have made history

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Pandemics
  • 1968 - 1969
    Hong Kong Influenza (H3N2) Number of deaths: nearly 1 million
    Disease outbreak: Hong Kong
    * In 1968 a vaccine was developed
  • 1956 - 1958
    Asian Influenza (H2N2) Number of deaths: 4 million
    Disease outbreak: Japan    grippe asiatique
  • 1980 - to date
    AIDS 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    sida
  • 1918-1919
    Spanish 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)    grippe espagnole
  • 1817 - 1991
    Cholera (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 century
    Yellow 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 century
    Black Death Number of deaths: 50 million, 25 million of which in Europe
    Disease outbreak: India or China
    * First introduction of quarantine    peste-noire
  • 6th - 8th century
    Justinian 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 - 189
    Antonine plague Number of deaths: 10 million
    Disease outbreak: Mesopotamia
    Other names of the disease: galenic plague, smallpox    peste antonine
  • 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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