PANDEMIC Disease: Cholera Estimated Death Toll: > 100,000 Location: Asia, Europe The first cholera pandemic (1817–24), also known as the first Asiatic cholera pandemic or Asiatic cholera, began near the city of Calcutta and spread throughout Southeast Asia to the...
EPIDEMIC Disease: Yellow Fever Estimated Death Toll: > 50,000 Location: United States During the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the official register of deaths between August 1 and November 9. The vast majority of...
EPIDEMIC Disease: Plague Estimated Death Toll: > 50,000 Location: Russia The Russian plague epidemic of 1770–1772, also known as the Plague of 1771, was the last massive outbreak of plague in central Russia, claiming between 52,000 and 100,000 lives in Moscow...
PANDEMIC Disease: Plague Estimated Death Toll: > 50,000 Location: Balkans The Great Plague of 1738 was an outbreak of the bubonic plague between 1738–1740 that affected areas in the modern nations of Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, and Austria. Although...
