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The last outbreak of cholera in the United States was in 1910–1911, when the steamship Moltke brought infected people from Naples to New York City. Vigilant health authorities isolated the infected in quarantine on Swinburne Island. Eleven people died, including a health care worker at the hospital on the island.
It is believed cholera claimed more than 150,000 victims in the United States during the two pandemics between 1832 and 1849, [13] [14] and also claimed 200,000 victims in Mexico. [15] In Vietnam, cholera outbreak in 1849 killed estimatedly from 800,000 to one million people (8–10% of the kingdom's 1847 population). [16]
Pacific Northwest, Canada and United States Smallpox: 20,000+ [159] [160] [161] 1861–1865 United States typhoid fever epidemic 1861–1865 United States Typhoid fever: 80,000 [162] Fourth cholera pandemic: 1863–1875 Middle East: Cholera: 600,000 [163] 1867 Sydney measles epidemic 1867 Sydney, Australia Measles: 748 [164] 1871 Buenos Aires ...
Numerous other cholera pandemics followed, killing hundreds of thousands of people, including both the eleventh and twelfth presidents of the United States, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor.
Some of the most significant Cholera outbreaks occurred during the 1800s (when the cause was still unknown). Cholera affected many communities throughout the United States, especially communities that lived in unsanitary conditions. [86] One population that was affected by water-borne disease such as Cholera, were Native Americans.
Cholera officially became the first reportable disease in the United States due to the significant effects it had on health. [19] John Snow , in England , in 1854 was the first to identify the importance of contaminated water as its source of transmission. [ 19 ]
Here are the nine worst years to be alive in human history. ... from a population of 105 million, the flu claimed about 675,000 lives—almost 10 times more than the country's World War I ...
Cholera ravaged northern Africa in 1865 and southeastward to Zanzibar, killing 70,000 in 1869–70. [35] Cholera claimed 90,000 lives in Russia in 1866. [36] The epidemic of cholera that spread with the Austro-Prussian War (1866) is estimated to have killed 165,000 people in the Austrian Empire. [37] In 1867, 113,000 died from cholera in Italy.