Epidemics in the US
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 Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina: measles 1759 North America: measles [areas inhabited by whites] 1761 North America & West Indies: influenza 1772 North America: measles 1775 North America: unknown epidemic [Especially hard hit in New England] 1775-76 Worldwide: influenza [One of the worst flu epidemics] 1788 Philadelphia & New York: measles 1793 Vermont: influenza; "putrid fever" 1793 Virginia: influenza [Killed 500 people in 55 counties in 4 weeks] 1793 Philadelphia: yellow fever [One of the worst] 1793 Delaware: "Extremely fatal" bilious disorder [especially in the Dover area] 1793 Pennsylvania: many unexplained deaths [especially Harrisburg & Middletown] 1794 Philadelphia: yellow fever 1796-97 Philadelphia: yellow fever 1798 Philadelphia: yellow fever [one of the worst] 1803 New York: yellow fever 1820-23 United States: "fever" [Started on the Schuykill River, PA & spread] 1831-32 United States: Asiatic cholera [Brought by English emigrants] 1832 New York & other major cities: cholera 1833 Columbus, OH: cholera 1834 New York City: cholera 1837 Philadelphia: typhus 1841 United States: yellow fever [Especially severe in the south] 1847 New Orleans: yellow fever 1847-48 Worldwide: influenza 1848-49 North America: cholera 1849 New York: cholera 1850 United States: yellow fever 1850-51 North America: influenza 1851 Coles Co, IL, the Great Plains & MO: cholera 1852 United States: yellow fever [8,000 Died in New Orleans during the summer] 1855 United States: yellow fever 1857-59 Worldwide: influenza [One the biggest epidemics of flu] 1860-61 Pennsylvania: smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore, Memphis & Washington, DC: recurring epidemics of smallpox, cholera, typhus, typhoid, scarlet fever & yellow fever 1873-75 North America & Europe: influenza 1878 New Orleans: yellow fever [last great epidemic of disease] 1885 Plymouth, PA: typhoid 1886 Jacksonville, FL: yellow fever 1918 Worldwide: influenza More people hospitalized in WWI from influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps - with 80% mortality rate in some.
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