Africa Pandemic

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Africa

* 542: Plague of Justinian – Pelusium, Egypt[19]
* 1347 – 1349: Black Death – North Africa[20]
* 1609: plague – Egypt
* 1812: plague – Egypt
* 1840: smallpox – Cape Town
* 1896 – 1906: sleeping sickness – Congo basin[21]
* 1900 - yellow fever - West Africa
* 1900 – 1920: sleeping sickness – Uganda[22]
* 1980s – present: HIV/AIDS in Africa[23]
* 1996: menigitis - West Africa
* 2001: cholera – Nigeria[24]
* 2001: cholera – South Africa[25]
* 2003: plague – Algeria[26]
* 2004: ebola – Sudan
* 2004: cholera – Senegal
* 2005 yellow fever – Mali
* 2006: plague – Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo
* 2006: cholera – Luanda, Angola
* 2007: ebola – Mweka, Democratic Republic of the Congo
* 2007: cholera – Ethiopia
* 2007: ebola – Uganda
* 2007: infantile paralysis – Nigeria
* 2007: cholera – Somalia
* 2008: plague – Madagascar
* 2008: cholera – Chad
* 2008 – 2009: Zimbabwean cholera outbreak
* 2009: West African meningitis outbreak

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