The World's Deadliest Epidemics
By Claire Henry\Book Talk for March
What is an Epidemic
An epidemic is when a large number of people in a certain area catch the same sickness.
What is a pandemic
Epidemics that spread over a much larger area is called a pandemic. AIDS is an example of a pandemic
What and how does this get started.
Did you know that a mosquito is a type of fly, there are about 3000 different types of mosquitoes. But only 3 of types of mosquito are responsible for spreading disease.
Major Pandemics
Almost to 9 million people a year are diagnosed with tuberculosis, but only about 1.4 million died. Between 1918 and 1919, the Spanish flu killed about 50 million people worldwide, 675000 of these people lived in the US.
Below you will see a table of the world's most deadliest epidemics and their death toll.
Epidemic/pandemic------------Death Toll
Influenza= 575,000+ deaths
Cholera= 6,500+ deaths
Meningitis= 931 deaths
SARS= 775 deaths
Hand, foot and mouth disease= 537 deaths
Dengue fever= 350+ deaths
Hepatitis B= 49 deaths
Ebola= 48 deaths
Tuberculosis= 1.4--2 million deaths per year
Spanish flu= 50 million deaths per year
Black Death= 30 million deaths per year
Malaria= 1.2 million deaths per year
Smallpox= 60 million deaths per year
yellow fever= 30,000 deaths per year
AIDS= 35 million deaths
Typhus= 10 million deaths
Polio= 3000 deaths