Epidemiology Assignment 2 - History of Epidemics in the New World
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| Date | Location | Epidemic | Infectious agent (type) | Number of fatalities | Population in region | Percent of population affected | Concurrent events in world history | Citations used |
| 430-429 BC | Athens. Greece | Unknown - Measles or typhoid | Virus (measles) or bacteria (typhoid) | unkn | 300-350 thousand | Estimated 1/3 - 2/3 | Athens was defeated by Sparta during following year | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Athens, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-century_Athens |
| 251 AD | Rome | Measles | Virus | 5,000 deaths daily | Below 54Million | Unkn | Rome was receiving constant invasions from the North | Fan, H. Y., Conner, R. F., & Villarreal, L. P. (2014). Aids: Science and society. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning. |
| 165 AD | Rome | Smallpox | Virus | A third of the entire ppulation of Rome | About 54 Million | 33.33% | Rome was receiving constant invasions from the North | Fan, H. Y., Conner, R. F., & Villarreal, L. P. (2014). Aids: Science and society. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning. |
| 542-543 AD | Europe | Bubonic Plague | Virus | Around 150 million | Approximately450 million | 30%-65% | After the plague, the Dark Ages of Eurpe began. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Death |
| 1518 | Mexico | Smallpox | Virus | around 1.5 million | 25-30 million | 5% | After the endemic, numerous other ailments that were European endemic children diseases struck Mexico. | Fan, H. Y., Conner, R. F., & Villarreal, L. P. (2014). Aids: Science and society. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning. |
| 1918 | Worldwide | Influenza | Virus | 50-100 million | 500 mmillion | 3-5% | unkn | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic |
| 1916 | Worldwide | Polio | Virus | More than 27,000 | unkn | unkn | unkn | https://ourworldindata.org/polio |
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