Top 10 Epidemics of All time

Plague

Smallpox

Measles

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Number 10

Approx 454,000 people, died worldwide in 2004, aka rubeola.

Polio

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Number 9

Caused more than 27,000 cases and 7,000 deaths in 1916.

Yellow Fever

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Number 8

1878 New Orleans killed 13,000 people 200,000 estimated cases of yellow fever, with 30,000 deaths, per year.

AIDS

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Number 7

(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) The leading cause of death of 15-to-49-year-olds totaling 45 million in 2005.

Malaria

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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)

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Number 5

2 million die annually with one-third of world’s population are thought to be infected

Cholera

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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)

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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

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Number 2

Ancient disease (variola virus)

Influenza or “flu”

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Number 1

Kills 36,000 people annually, (RNA virus).