Top 10 Epidemics of All time


Plague




Smallpox


Measles
is
Number 10
Approx 454,000 people, died worldwide in 2004, aka rubeola.
Polio
is
Number 9
Caused more than 27,000 cases and 7,000 deaths in 1916.
Yellow Fever
is
Number 8
1878 New Orleans killed 13,000 people 200,000 estimated cases of yellow fever, with 30,000 deaths, per year.
AIDS
is
Number 7
(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) The leading cause of death of 15-to-49-year-olds totaling 45 million in 2005.
Malaria
is
Number 6
Over 1 million people a year die, (parasites of the genuis Plasmodium). Annually 300 million–500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide!
Tuberculosis (TB)
is
Number 5
2 million die annually with one-third of world’s population are thought to be infected
Cholera
is
Number 4
This water-borne disease in the summer of 1832, killed 3,000+ in New York, World Health Organization said that 56 countries officially reported 101,383 cholera cases, including 2,345 deaths.
Plague (bubonic and Pneumonic)
is
Number 3
Killed one-third of Europe’s population in 1348-50, (Yersinia pestis). World Health Organization reports 1,000-3,000 cases annually
Smallpox
is
Number 2
Ancient disease (variola virus)
Influenza or “flu”
is
Number 1
Kills 36,000 people annually, (RNA virus).

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