The history of the world in 100 pandemics, plagues and epidemics

Machine generated contents note:ch. 1Hamin Mangha to the Middle Ages --ch. 2The Plague of Athens, 430 BC --ch. 3The Antonine Plague, AD 165-180 --ch. 4The Han Dynasty Smallpox Epidemic, AD 200 --ch. 5The Plague of Cyprian, AD 250-271 --ch. 6The Plague of Justinian: AD 541-549 (First Plague Pandemic) --ch. 7The Japanese Smallpox epidemic AD 735-737 --ch. 8Bubonic plague; the Black Death 1346-1353 (start of Second Plague Pandemic) --ch. 9Plague Quarantine in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) 1377 --ch. 10Dancing to death, 1374 --ch. 11Sweating sickness 1485-1551 --ch. 12The 1489 typhus epidemic, Granada, Spain --ch. 13The influenza pandemic: Asia, North Africa, Europe 1510 --ch. 141519-1520 smallpox epidemic, Mexico --ch. 15The Cocoliztli epidemics: 1545-1548 and 1576-1580 --ch. 161561-1562 Chile smallpox epidemic and the Balmis Expedition --ch. 17Plague in the 16th century --ch. 181600-1650 South America malaria epidemic --ch. 19The 1616-1620 New England infections epidemic --ch. 20Plague in the 17th century --ch. 211633-1634 Massachusetts smallpox epidemic --ch. 22The 1648 Central America yellow fever epidemic --ch. 23The 1677-1678 Boston smallpox epidemic --ch. 24The US yellow fever epidemics --ch. 251702-1703 St. Lawrence Valley smallpox epidemic --ch. 261707-1709 Iceland smallpox epidemic --ch. 27Plague in the 18th century --ch. 281713-1715 North America measles epidemic --ch. 291721 Boston smallpox outbreak and the inoculation war --ch. 301735-1741 The 'Throat Distemper' (diphtheria) epidemic: New England, New York, New Jersey --ch. 311775-1782 North American smallpox epidemic and the prison ships --ch. 32The Andamanese measles tragedy 1759-1793 --ch. 33Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic: 1793 --ch. 341802-1803 Saint-Domingue yellow fever epidemic --ch. 35Plague in the 19th century --ch. 36The 1817-1824 cholera pandemic 1817-1824 (First Cholera Pandemic) --ch. 37Second cholera pandemic 1826-1837, Asia, Europe, North America --ch. 381829 Groningen malaria epidemic --ch. 391837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic --ch. 401847 North American typhus epidemic: coffin ships and fever sheds --ch. 41Third cholera pandemic 1852-60: John Snow and the Broad Street pump and 'fetid Redcar' --ch. 421853 Copenhagen cholera outbreak --ch. 43British Columbia smallpox epidemic 1862-1863: a case of genocide --ch. 44The third plague pandemic 1855-1960 --ch. 45The Fourth cholera pandemic 1863-1875: Wales --ch. 461871 Buenos Aires yellow fever epidemic --ch. 47The Fiji measles pandemic: 1875 --ch. 48Fifth cholera pandemic 1881-1896: the Hamburg Riots --ch. 49The flu pandemic: 1889-1890: Russian influenza --ch. 50Plague in the 20th century --ch. 51The sixth cholera pandemic, 1910-1911 --ch. 521915-1926 Encephalitis lethargica pandemic --ch. 53American polio epidemic: 1916 'the crippler' --ch. 54Influenza in the 20th century --ch. 551929-1930 The great parrot fever pandemic --ch. 56Seventh cholera pandemic 1961-1975 --ch. 57Legionnaire's Disease, 1976 Philadelphia --ch. 58HIV/AIDS pandemic and epidemic: 1981- --ch. 59Two Old Friends: leprosy (Hansen's Disease) --ch. 60...tuberculosis --ch. 61Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), 2002 --ch. 62MERS: 2012 -- Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak --ch. 63Ebola virus disease, 2013-2016 --ch. 64Zika virus epidemic, 2015-2016 --ch. 65COVID-19, 2019-.