Health / Disease / Third Cholera Pandemic: (1852-1860) Included outbreaks in London. The Broad Street outbreak investigated by John Snow was particularly deadly. MORE
Health / Disease / Black Death: (1347-1351) One of the most deadly pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by Bubonic Plague. MORE
Health / Disease / Cholera El Tor: El Tor is the name given to a particular strain of the Vibrio cholera bacterium, the causative agent of cholera. It has been the dominant strain in the seventh global pandemic. It was first identified MORE
Health / Disease / Plague Of Justinian: (541-542) The Plague of Justinian was a pandemic that afflicted the Byzantine Empire, including its capital Constantinople, in the years 541?€“542 AD. It has been speculated that this pandemic was MORE