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Diseases that challenged the scientific community
Created by
Erica Nguyen
⟶ Updated 14 Dec 2018 ⟶
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Events
Hernando Cortes
First use of Small pox vaccine
Salk's injected polio vaccine introduced
Sabin's oral polio vaccine licensed
World Health Organization declares polio eradicated
Polio first described in Egypt
First description of Measles
Measles in the New World
Measles reaches Hawaii
Measles virus identified
Measles vaccine
Philadelphia Parade kills 116 people due to Influenza
influenza virus discovered
attempt at 1918 flu vaccine
Russian Flu
Spanish flu, occurred from 1918-1919
Asian flu
Hong Kong flu
Mexican flu
45 million people vaccinated
Reemergence of H1N1 in China
Columbian Exchange
Fall of Aztec Empire
Variolation first introduced and popularized
Edward Jenner uses variolation to infect James Phillips
Entire genome of Streptomyces sequenced
Streptomyces first discovered
Phytophthora outbreak in Taiwan
Blight of Phytophthora in Southeast Asia
Irish potato blight
Phytophthora Outbreak in Alaska
Lab accident causes a few infections of smallpox
Smallpox declared eradocated
1st documented Syphilis outbreak
Tuskegee Study
Guatamalan Study
First reference of Leprosy in Egypt
Amaur Hansen determines cause of Leprosy
Armadillo genome sequenced
Eleonor Storns discovers armadillos are suspectible to leprosy
Mycobacterium leprae identified as the cause for Leprosy
Creation of Multidrug therapy
Diagnostic test for Leprosy
Firland Sanatorium opens
Tuberculosis bacterium discovered
Case study of active tuberculosis
Case Study of Latent tuberculosis
Discovery of Penecillin by Fleming
Discovery that led to creation of the antibiotic streptomycin
Plague of Athens
Gaol Fever
Napolean's retreat from Moscow
Ireland and the year without a summer
North American Typhus Epidemic
Typhus spreads to New York
Armenia genocide
Endemic Typhus in LA
Bath riots
Mexico Revolution
US Immigration Act
Yellow Fever Epidemic
Yellow Fever in New Orleans
Carlos Finlay experiment
Yellow Fever in Wilmington
Saffron Scourge (Memphis)
French started building the panama canel
E coli discovery
Discovery of the Rotovirus
Ritovirus Vaccine
Last naturally occurrring small pox patient
Phytophthora discovered as the cause for potato blight
First usage of Rabies vaccine
World Rabies Day
Germ Theory of Disease
Zika first documented in Uganda in Rhesus
A dozen cases of Zika confimed in Nigeria
1st case of Ebola recorded in south-east asia in Malaysia
Major outbreak of Zika on island of Yap in Micronesia
Zika outbreak in French Polynesia
Zika virus spreads to Brazil
hippocrates describes "malaria"
Roman Fever
The Great stink in London
Flushing toilet
John Snow solves cholera outbreak
Typhoid outbreak in US
Typhoid vaccine developed
Typhoid antibiotic treatment available
Typhoid Mary
Robert Koch isolates vibrio cholera
cholera outbreak in Hamburg
cholera epidemic in NY
last documented US cholera outbreak
proposal for waterworks
cholera epidemic in NY
cholera epidemic in Europe
V. cholerae identified as causative agent for cholera
First 5 pandemics of cholera 1817-96
6th pandemic 1899-1923
7th pandemic 1961-present
8th pandemic 1992-present
2nd pandemic 1827-35
Brightwater treatment plant open
SARS first discovered in Asia
Sars outbreak in Asia -- Vietnam, China and Hong Kong
MERS shows up in Saudi Arabia (first case)
Rotovirus vaccination (2000's)
First case of AIDS in the midwest
start of AIDS epidemics in US
Andrew Wakefield publishes case study in a well known medical journal saying that the MMR vaccine causes childen to develop behavioral problems
Van Leuwenhoek discovers "animalcules" (bacteria)
Ehrlich finds cure for syphilis
CDC identifies first case of AIDS in US
Anopheles discovered to transmit malaria
Jesse Lazear experiments in Cuba
Walter Reed experiments
Beijerink discovers the virus
Alexander Yersin discovers cause of the plague
Periods
The great pestilence
Justinian Plague
Introduction of the idea of quarantine
Global pandemic
Identification of Puerperal fever (Childbed fever)
Introduction of sterile surgery
Introduction of "Germ theory of Disease"
Louis Pasteur creates Rabies vaccine
Anthrax attacks US
Anthrax outbreak in Europe
Anthrax vaccine for animals
Anthrax spores released from frozen animals
Creation of world's rabies day
Anthrax attacks the city of Sverdlovsk
First major anthrax outbreak in Europe
First microbiological discovery of the cause of Anthrax
