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Date |
Event(s) |
1 | 1592 | - 1592—1596: Seneca nation measles epidemic
Affected an unknow number of Seneca natives in North America
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2 | 1603 | - 1603: London plague epidemic
Bubonic plague epidemic in London, England that killed 40,000 people.
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3 | 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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