@ |
id |
death_toll |
event |
Location |
date_range |
disease |
lasted(years) |
|
0140 |
up to 100,000,000 |
Spanish flu |
worldwide |
1918–1920 |
Influenza |
2 |
|
0206 |
931 |
2009–2010 West African meningitis outbreak |
West Africa |
2009–2010 |
Meningitis |
1 |
|
0208 |
9,985 (May 2017) |
Haiti cholera outbreak |
Hispaniola |
2010–present |
Cholera |
10 |
|
0213 |
862 (as of 13 January 2020) |
2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak |
Worldwide |
2012–present |
Middle East respiratory syndrome |
8 |
|
0226 |
83 |
2019 Samoa measles outbreak |
Samoa |
2019–present |
Measles |
1 |
|
0035 |
76,000 |
Great Plague of Vienna |
Austria |
1679 |
Plague |
1 |
|
0010 |
75–200 million; 30–60% of population |
Black Death |
Europe , Asia and North Africa |
1331–1353 |
Plague |
22 |
|
0001 |
75,000–100,000 |
Plague of Athens |
Greece |
429–426 BC |
|
3 |
|
0222 |
64 (as of 16 August 2017) |
2017 Gorakhpur Japanese encephalitis outbreak |
India |
2017 |
Japanese encephalitis |
1 |
|
0110 |
616 |
Broad Street cholera outbreak |
England |
1854 |
Cholera |
1 |
|
0158 |
52 |
1994 plague epidemic in Surat |
India |
1994 |
Plague |
1 |
|
0012 |
5–15 million (80% of population) |
Cocoliztli Epidemic of 1545–1548 |
Mexico |
1545–1548 |
Possibly Salmonella enterica |
3 |
|
0002 |
5–10 million |
Antonine Plague |
Roman Empire |
165–180 (possibly up to 190) |
Unknown, possibly smallpox |
15 |
|
0152 |
5 |
|
Netherlands |
1971 |
Poliomyelitis |
1 |
|
0187 |
49 |
|
India |
2008 |
Cholera |
1 |
|
0203 |
49 |
2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak |
India |
2009 |
Hepatitis B |
1 |
|
0168 |
44 |
SARS outbreak |
Canada |
2002–2004 |
SARS coronavirus |
2 |
|
0143 |
43 |
Croydon epidemic of typhoid fever |
Croydon, UK |
1937 |
Typhoid fever |
1 |
|
0033 |
40,000 |
|
France |
1668 |
Plague |
1 |
|
0124 |
40,000 |
1875 Fiji Measles outbreak |
Fiji |
1875 |
Measles |
1 |
|
0138 |
40,000 |
1910 China plague |
China |
1910–1912 |
Bubonic plague |
2 |
|
0216 |
40 |
2014 Madagascar plague outbreak |
Madagascar |
2014–2017 |
Bubonic plague |
3 |
|
0109 |
4,737 |
Cholera epidemic of Copenhagen 1853 |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
1853 |
Cholera |
1 |
|
0201 |
4,293 |
2008–2009 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak |
Zimbabwe |
2008–2009 |
Cholera |
1 |
|
0137 |
4 |
|
Fremantle |
1903 |
Bubonic plague |
1 |
|
0150 |
4 |
|
Sweden |
1963 |
Smallpox |
1 |
|
0167 |
37 |
SARS outbreak |
Taiwan |
2002–2004 |
SARS coronavirus |
2 |
|
0217 |
36 |
2014 Odisha jaundice outbreak |
India |
2014–2015 |
|
1 |
|
0153 |
35 |
1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia |
Yugoslavia |
1972 |
Smallpox |
1 |
|
0165 |
349 |
SARS outbreak |
China |
2002–2004 |
SARS coronavirus |
2 |
|
0169 |
33 |
SARS outbreak |
Singapore |
2002–2004 |
SARS coronavirus |
2 |
|
0021 |
30–90% of population |
1616 New England epidemic |
Southern New England, especially the Wampanoag people |
1616–1619 |
|
3 |
|
0142 |
30 |
1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak |
Los Angeles |
1924 |
Pneumonic plague |
1 |
|
0221 |
3,886 (as of 30 November 2019) |
2016–17 Yemen cholera outbreak |
Yemen |
2016–present |
Cholera |
4 |
|
0128 |
3,164 |
|
Montreal |
1885 |
Smallpox |
1 |
|
0166 |
299 |
SARS outbreak |
Hong Kong |
2002–2004 |
SARS coronavirus |
2 |
|
0022 |
280,000 |
Italian plague of 1629–1631 |
Italy |
1629–1631 |
Plague |
2 |
|
0177 |
27 |
2005 dengue outbreak in Singapore |
Singapore |
2005 |
Dengue fever |
1 |
|
0004 |
25–50 million; 40% of population |
Plague of Justinian |
Europe ,Egypt and West Asia |
541–542 |
Plague |
1 |
|
0031 |
24,148 |
|
Netherlands |
1663–1664 |
Plague |
1 |
|
0159 |
231 |
|
worldwide |
1996-2001 |
vCJD |
5 |
|
0014 |
2–2.5 million (50% of population) |
Cocoliztli epidemic of 1576 |
Mexico |
1576–1580 |
Possibly Salmonella enterica |
4 |
|
0207 |
203,000 |
2009 flu pandemic |
Worldwide |
2009 |
Influenza |
1 |
|
0227 |
2,463 (as of 22 February 2020) |
2019–20 coronavirus outbreak |
Worldwide |
2019–present |
COVID-19 |
1 |
|
0224 |
2,253 (as of 20 February 2020) |
2018–19 Kivu Ebola epidemic |
Democratic Republic of the Congo & Uganda |
August 2018–present |
Ebola virus disease |
2 |
|
0218 |
2,035 |
2015 Indian swine flu outbreak |
India |
2015 |
Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 |
1 |
|
0148 |
2,000,000 |
Asian flu |
worldwide |
1957–1958 |
Influenza |
1 |
|
0215 |
183 |
2013–14 chikungunya outbreak |
Americas |
2013–2015 |
Chikungunya |
1 |
|
0223 |
18 (as of February 2020) |
2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala |
India |
2018 |
Nipah virus infection |
1 |
|
0202 |
18 |
2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic |
Bolivia |
2009 |
Dengue fever |
1 |
|