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Bacterial
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Black Death 1347
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic caused by Yersinia pestis that killed an estimated 75 to 200 million peopl...
Plague of Justinian 541
The Plague of Justinian was the first recorded pandemic of bubonic plague, beginning in 541 AD in the Byzantine Empire d...
Cholera Pandemics 1817
Seven cholera pandemics have occurred since 1817, killing millions. The first pandemic began in Jessore, India, in 1817 ...
Third Plague Pandemic
The Third Plague Pandemic began in Yunnan province, China, in 1855 and spread globally over decades, not ending until 19...
Typhoid Mary
Mary Mallon, known as Typhoid Mary, was the first identified asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever in the United States....
Cholera Broad Street
The Broad Street cholera outbreak of 1854 in London was the investigation that established modern epidemiology. Dr John ...
Great Plague of London
The Great Plague of London in 1665 was the last major bubonic plague outbreak in England. The plague killed approximatel...
Typhus Concentration Camps
Epidemic typhus, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii and transmitted by body lice, devastated concentration camp prisoners d...
Legionnaires Disease
Legionnaires disease was first identified in July 1976 when 182 people fell ill and 29 died after attending an American ...
Toxic Shock Syndrome
Toxic Shock Syndrome TSS became widely known in 1980 when an outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus TSS affected young women ...
Anthrax 2001
The 2001 anthrax attacks occurred one week after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Letters containing Bacillus anthrac...
AMR Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial resistance AMR is one of the top global public health threats. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evo...
Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, transmitted through the bite of infected Ixodes ticks. The...
Drug Resistant TB
Drug resistant tuberculosis is a growing global health threat. Multidrug resistant TB MDR TB is resistant to at least ri...
Tuberculosis Europe
Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in industrializing Europe and America in the 18th and 19th centuries, earnin...
Cholera Haiti 2010
Epidemiological and genomic studies traced the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak to a base housing United Nations peacekeepers...
E coli O157
E coli O157 H7 was first identified as a pathogen in 1982 during outbreaks linked to McDonalds hamburgers in Oregon and ...
Meningitis Belt
The African Meningitis Belt spans approximately 26 countries from Senegal to Ethiopia, home to 450 million people. Epide...