worst plagues in history

By figgivuly
  • Feb 14, 1340

    black death, death toll 100,000,000

    black death, death toll 100,000,000
    Black death was one of the most deadliest plagues, it began in the south western central of asia

  • malaria, 1,000,000 deaths per year

    malaria, 1,000,000 deaths per year
    malaria causes about 400-900 million of fever and approximately one to three million deathes annually.Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases and enormous public -health problem.

  • cholera, 100,000 - 130,000 deaths per year

    cholera, 100,000 - 130,000 deaths per year
    Festering along the Ganges river in india for centuries, the disease broke out of Calcutta in 1817 with grand scale results. Cholera sailed from port to port, the germ making headway in contaminated kegs of water or in the excrement of infected victims, and transmitted by travelers

  • Typhus, 174 deaths per 100,000 people

    Typhus, 174 deaths per 100,000 people
    Typhus is any one of several similiar diseases caused by louse-borne bacteria. The name comes from the Greek typhos, meaning smoky or lazy.

  • spanish flu, death toll 50 - 100 million

    spanish flu, death toll 50 - 100 million
    there is no cure for the influenza flu

  • ebola, death toll 284

    ebola, death toll 284
    Ebola is the virus Ebolavirus (EBOV), a viral genus, and the disease Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), a viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). The virus is named after the Ebola River Valley in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), which is near the site of the first recognized outbreak in 1976 at a mission hospital run by Flemish nuns.[1] It remained largely obscure until 1989 when several widely publicized outbreaks occurred among monkeys in the United States.

  • small pox, 300 - 500 million worldwide over 3 centuries

    small pox, 300 - 500 million worldwide over 3 centuries
    smallpox is caused by two virus variants there names are variola major and variola minor

  • hantavirus, 33 cases per year, 30% of cases are fatal

    hantavirus, 33 cases per year, 30% of cases are fatal
    Humans may be infected with hantaviruses through rodent bites or contact witSome hantaviruses cause potentially fatal diseases in humans, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), but others have not been associated with human disease.

  • aids, death toll 21.8 million

    aids, death toll 21.8 million
    Aids has led to the deaths of 25 million people since it was recognize in 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history.