PANDEMIC Disease: Cholera Estimated Death Toll: > 600,000 Location: Middle East The fourth cholera pandemic of the 19th century began in the Ganges Delta of the Bengal region and traveled with Muslim pilgrims to Mecca. In its first year, the epidemic claimed 30,000...
PANDEMIC Disease: Bubonic Plague Estimated Death Toll: > 12,000,000 Location: Worldwide The third plague pandemic was a major bubonic plague pandemic that began in Yunnan, China in 1855 during the fifth year of the Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing dynasty. This episode...
PANDEMIC Disease: Cholera Estimated Death Toll: > 1,000,000 Location: Asia, Europe, Africa, North America The third cholera pandemic (1846–60) was the third major outbreak of cholera originating in India in the nineteenth century that reached far beyond its...
EPIDEMIC Disease: Typhus Estimated Death Toll: > 20,000 Location: Canada The typhus epidemic of 1847 was an outbreak of epidemic typhus caused by a massive Irish emigration in 1847, during the Great Famine, aboard crowded and disease-ridden “coffin...
PANDEMIC Disease: Cholera Estimated Death Toll: > 100,000 Location: Asia, Europe, North America The second cholera pandemic (1826–1837), also known as the Asiatic cholera pandemic, was a cholera pandemic that reached from India across western Asia to Europe, Great...
