History of medicine: Pandemics

A pandemic is an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents, or worldwide.

 

Etymology

From Greek
πᾶν (pan, 'all')
δῆμος (demos, 'people' )

 

Ongoing 

• AIDS pandemic
• 2019-2020 Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

 

Resolved

• The Black Death
• 1918 flu pandemic
• 1957–1958 influenza pandemic
• 1968 flu pandemic
• 2009 swine flu pandemic

 

Diseases

• Plague
• Cholera
• Typhus
• Smallpox
• Measles
• Tuberculosis
• Leprosy
• Malaria
• Yellow fever
• HIV infection
• Influenza 
• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)