U.S. EPIDEMICS

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EPIDEMICS:

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Date Location Type of Epidemic

1657	Boston	Measles
1687	Boston	Measles
1690	New York	Yellow Fever
1713	Boston	Measles
1729	Boston	Measles
1732-3	Worldwide	Influenza
1738	South Carolina	Smallpox
1739-40	Boston	Measles
1747	CT, NY, PA, SC	Measles
1759	North America	Measles: areas inhabited by white people
1761	N. America and West Indies	Influenza
1772	North America	Measles
1775	North America	Unknown epidemic: especially hard in NE
1775-6	Worldwide	Influenza: one of the worst epidemics
1783	Dover, Delaware	"Extremely fatal" bilious disorder
1788	Philadelphia and New York	Measles
1793	Vermont	A "putrid" fever and Influenza
1793	Virginia	Influenza: killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks
1793	Philadelphia	Yellow Fever: over 4,000 deaths
1793	Harrisburg, PA	Many unexplained deaths
1793	Middletown, PA	Many unexplained deaths
1794	Philadelphia, PA	Yellow Fever
1796-7	Philadelphia, PA	Yellow Fever
1798	Philadelphia, PA	Yellow Fever: one of the worst
1803	New York	Yellow Fever
1820-3	Nationwide	"Fever" - started Schuylkill River and spread
1822	New York and New Orleans	Yellow Fever
1831-2	Nationwide	Asiatic Cholera: brought by English emigrants
1832	NY City and other major cities	Cholera
1832	New Orleans	Asiatic Cholera: over 1,000 deaths
1832	Ayrshire towns of Stevenston, Dalry and Kilbride in Scotland	Cholera
1833	Columbus, OH	Cholera
1834	New York City	Cholera
1837	Philadelphia	Typhus
1841	Nationwide	Yellow Fever: especially severe in the south
1847	New Orleans	Yellow Fever
1847-8	Worldwide	Influenza
1848-9	North America	Cholera
1849	New York	Cholera
1849-50	New Orleans	Cholera: 3,000 deaths
1850	Nationwide	Yellow Fever
1850	Alabama, New York	Cholera
1850-1	North America	Influenza
1851	Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains, and Missouri	Cholera
1852	Nationwide	Yellow Fever
1853	New Orleans	Yellow Fever: 8,000 die
1855	Nationwide	Yellow Fever
1857-9	Worldwide	Influenza: one of the greatest epidemics
1860-1	Pennsylvania	Smallpox
1865-73	Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC	Smallpox, a series of recurring epidemics of Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever
1873-5	N. America and Europe	Influenza
1878	New Orleans	Yellow Fever: last great epidemic
1878	Memphis, TN	Yellow Fever
1885	Chicago, IL	water-borne disease
1885	Plymouth, PA	Typhoid
1886	Jacksonville, FL	Yellow Fever
1900	Galveston, TX	cholera
1902	Alaska	measles
1905	New Orleans	Yellow Fever: last U.S. outbreak
1918 high point yr	Worldwide, including continental U.S. 500 million people infected, 50-100 million died worldwide.	Influenza: more people were hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic than wounds. U.S. Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps. U.S. cities hit hard. None as the Spanish Flu.

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