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1657 | Boston | Measles |
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1687 | Boston | Measles |
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1690 | New York | Yellow Fever |
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1713 | Boston | Measles |
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1729 | Boston | Measles |
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1732-1733 | Worldwide | Influenza |
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1738 | South Carolina | Smallpox |
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1739-1740 | Boston | Measles |
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1747 | Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina | Smallpox
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1759 | North America | Measles |
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1761 | North America and West Indies | Influenza |
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1772 | North America | Measles |
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1775 | North America (especially in North East) | Unknown |
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1775-1776 | Worldwide | Influenza |
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1783 | Dover, Delaware (was extremely fatal) | Bilious Disorder |
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1788 | Philadelphia and New York | Measles |
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1793 | Vermont | (a "putrid" fever) and Influenza |
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1793 | Virginia (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks) | Influenza |
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1793 | Philadelphia | Yellow Fever |
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1793 | Harrisburg, PA (many unexplained deaths) | Unknown |
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1793 | Middletown, Pennsylvania (many mysterious deaths) | Unknown |
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1794 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Yellow Fever |
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1796-1797 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Yellow Fever |
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1798 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (one of the worst) | Yellow Fever |
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1803 | New York | Yellow Fever |
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1820-1823 | Nationwide (started at Schuylkill River and spread) | "Fever" |
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1831-1832 | Nationwide (brought in by English Immigrants) | Asiatic Cholera |
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1832 | New York and other major cities | Cholera |
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1833 | Columbus, Ohio | Cholera |
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1833-34 | Kentucky | Cholera |
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1834 | New York City, New York | Cholera |
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1837 | Philadelphia | Typhus |
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1841 | Nationwide (especially severe in the South) | Yellow Fever |
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1847 | New Orleans | Yellow Fever |
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1847-1848 | Worldwide | Influenza |
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1848-1849 | North America | Cholera |
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1849 | New York | Cholera |
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1850 | Nationwide | Yellow Fever |
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1850-1851 | North America | Influenza |
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1851 | Coles County, Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri | Cholera |
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1852 | Nationwide (New Orleans 8,000 died that summer) | Yellow Fever |
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1855 | Nationwide | Yellow Fever |
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1857-1859 | Worldwide (one of the largest epidemics) | Influenza |
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1860-1861 | Pennsylvania | Smallpox |
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1865-1873 | Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC | A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, and Influenza |
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1873-1875 | North America and Europe | Influenza |
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1878 | New Orleans (last great epidemic) | Yellow Fever |
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1885 | Plymouth, Pennsylvania | Typhoid |
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1888(summer-early fall) | Jacksonville, Florida | Yellow Fever |
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1918 | Worldwide (high point year) more people were hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps. | Influenza or Spanish Flu |
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