Years of
Sickness
and Hardship
Year

1857
1860
1861
1865
1865
1865
1868
1873
1873
1878
1885
1886
1889
1893
1900
1901
1907
1917
1931
1942
Ailment

Influenza*
Small Pox*
Epedemics*
Small Pox*
Cholera
Typhus*
Small Pox*
Influenza*
Cholera
Yellow Fever
Typhoid
Yellow Fever
Influenza*
Polio
Plague*
Small Pox*
Polio*
Influenza*
Polio
Polio
Place

WW
US
US
US
US
US
US
UK
US
US
US
US
WW
US
US
US
US
WW
US
US
More Information


PA
Civil War numerous infectious diseases



7 years
In North America and Europe

New Orleans
PA
FL

1st known outbreak


9 years
worst ever

11 years.
* Means the epidemic is spread over more than one year.