Major US Epidemics
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Major US Epidemics
1793
Philadelphia: more than 4,000 residents died from yellow fever.
1832
July-Aug., New York City: over 3,000 people killed in a cholera epidemic.
Oct., New Orleans: cholera took the lives of 4,340 people.
1848
New York City: more than 5,000 deaths caused by cholera.
1853
New Orleans: yellow fever killed 7,790.
1867
New Orleans: 3,093 perished from yellow fever.
1878
Southern states: over 13,000 people died from yellow fever in lower
Mississippi Valley.
1916
Nationwide: over 7,000 deaths occurred and 27,363 cases were reported of
polio (infantile paralysis) in America's worst polio epidemic.
1918
March-Nov., nationwide: outbreak of Spanish influenza killed over 500,000
people in the worst single US epidemic.
1949
Nationwide: 2,720 deaths occurred from polio, and 42,173 cases were
reported.
1952
Nationwide: polio killed 3,300; 57,628 cases reported; worst epidemic since
1916.
1981
1981 to Dec. 1999: total US AIDS cases reported to Centers for Disease
Control: 724,656; total AIDS deaths reported: 425,357
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