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Date |
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1 | 1616 | - 1616—1620: New England infections epidemic
Affected Southern New England, British North America, especially the Wampanoag people, and killed an estimated 30% to 90% of specific populations.
Unknown source, possibly leptospirosis with Weil syndrome. Classic explanations include yellow fever, bubonic plague, influenza, smallpox, chickenpox, typhus, and syndemic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis D
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2 | 1633 | - 1633—1634: Massachusetts smallpox epidemic
Made about 1,000 victims
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3 | 1634 | - 1634—1640: Wyandot people epidemic of infections
Killed between 15,000 and 25,000 Wyandot people of North America.
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4 | 1637 | - 1637—1637: London plague epidemic
Bubonic plague epidemic in London and Westminster, England - Killed about 10,000 people
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5 | 1665 | - 1665—1666: Great Plague of London
Bubonic plague. Killed an estimated 100,000 individuals
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6 | 1668 | - 1668—1668: France plague
Bubonic plague, killed 20,000 individuals.
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7 | 1677 | - 1677—1678: Boston smallpox epidemic
Smallpox epidemic that killed 750 to 1,000 residents of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, British North America
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