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From: "DrBobBarnes" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA] UK/US/WORLD ILLNESSES
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:09:45 -0400
References: <OE78q9pVBlLwCDMtVMo000050ab@hotmail.com>


Wow. its a wonder any of us are here. Dr. Bob!
----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia Hall <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:31 PM
Subject: [RHEA] UK/US/WORLD ILLNESSES


> I got this from another list I belong to
> Pat
> : UK Illnesses through the yearsOriginal Message -----
>
> YEAR AILMENT PLACE
> 1350* Bubonic Plague World wide
> 1499 Bubonic Plague London (UK)
> 1507* "Fever" UK (lasted from 1507 - 1550)
> 1551 Influenza UK
> 1555 Famine UK (rains bought famine and weakness)
> 1556* Bubonic Plague UK (this was an extreme event and lasted
> until
> 1563)
> 1578 Bubonic Plague UK
> 1586 Bubonic Plague Chesterfield UK (all Harvests failed)
> 1591 Acute Distress UK (as a result of above)
> 1593 Bubonic Plague UK
> 1596* Famine UK (harvests failed and epidemics began)
> 1603 Bubonic Plague UK
> 1612 Bubonic Plague UK
> 1617* Smallpox US (amongst the Native Indians)
> 1623 Bad Harvest UK (lasted 2 years)
> 1625* Bubonic Plague UK
> 1630 Plague at worst UK (many thousands died)
> 1631 Bubonic Plague UK
> 1633 Smallpox US (Native Indians)
> 1636* Bubonic Plague UK
> 1647 Yellow Fever West Indies
> 1648 Smallpox US
> 1648 Whooping Cough US
> 1654 Bubonic Plague UK
> 1657 Measles Boston, US
> 1662 Smallpox New York, US
> 1665* Bubonic Plague UK (extreme)
> 1668 Yellow Fever New York, US
> 1677* Smallpox Boston, US
> 1687 Measles Boston, US
> 1690 Yellow Fever NY US
> 1699 Yellow Fever SC US
>
> 1702* Yellow Fever NY US
> 1702 Scarlet Fever Boston US
> 1706 Yellow Fever SC US
> 1713 Measles Boston US
> 1721 Smallpox US
> 1723 Influenza World wide
> 1723* Famine UK (lasted seven years - poor harvests
> and
> resultant epidemics)
> 1728 Yellow Fever SC US
> 1729 Measles Boston US
> 1732 Yellow Fever SC US
> 1732 Influenza SC US
> 1735* Diphtheria US
> 1735* Scarlet Fever New England US (4 years)
> 1738 Smallpox Carolina US
> 1739* Measles Boston US
> 1743* Yellow Fever NY US
> 1747 Measles CT, NY, PA, SC, US
> 1759 Measles North America
> 1761 Influenza US and West Indies
> 1763* Smallpox Boston, US
> 1772 Measles US
> 1775* Influenza World Wide
> 1783 Bilious Disorder US (this was fatal and thought to be
> similar
> to Dysentery)
> 1788 Measles PA, NY, US
> 1789 Influenza US
> 1792* Yellow Fever US (lasted 7 years)
> 1793 Unknown Fever PA, US
> 1793 Influenza Vermont, Virginia, US
>
> 1802 Smallpox Nebraska, US
> 1803 Yellow Fever NY US
> 1820* Fever US
> 1826* Cholera World Wide (this lasted until 1837)
> 1826* Dengue Fever US and West Indies
> 1829* Malaria US
> 1831* Cholera UK (began world wide in 1826)
> 1831* Cholera US
> 1832 Influenza US
> 1833 Cholera Ohio US
> 1834 Cholera NY US
> 1837 Typhus PA US
> 1837 Smallpox US (Native Indians)
> 1841 Yellow Fever NO US
> 1847 Measles US (Native Indians)
> 1847 Yellow Fever NO US
> 1848* Cholera World Wide
> 1850 Yellow Fever US
> 1850* Dengue Fever US
> 1851 Cholera IL US
> 1852 Yellow Fever NO US
> 1853 Cholera UK (began in Birmingham)
> 1855 Yellow Fever US
> 1857* Influenza World Wide
> 1860 Smallpox Pennsylvania US
> 1861 Epidemics US (Civil War - numerous infectious
> diseases)
> 1865 Smallpox US
> 1865 Cholera US
> 1865 Typhus US
> 1868* Smallpox US (lasted 7 years)
> 1873 Cholera US
> 1878 Yellow Fever FL US
> 1885 Typhoid PA US
> 1886 Yellow Fever FL US
> 1889* Influenza World Wide
> 1893 Polio US (first known outbreak)
>
> 1900* Plague US
> 1901* Smallpox US
> 1907* Polio US (lasted 9 years)
> 1917 Spanish Influenza World Wide (worst ever outbreak)
> 1931 Polio US
> 1942* Polio US (lasted 11 years)
> 1947* Smallpox UK (lasted 2 years)
> 1950 Polio World Wide.
>
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