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Table Ag493-494 - Infectious disease epidemics among American Indians: 1531-1918

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Epidemic People affected
Row Period Epidemic People affected
1 1531-1533 Measles New Spain, probably beyond the colony, northward including Pueblos and beyond
2 1545-1548 Bubonic Plague New Spain to Pueblos and perhaps beyond
3 1559 Influenza Southeastern peoples
4 1576 Bubonic Plague New Spain
5 1586 Typhus Tidewater Carolina tribes to Florida Timucua and Alalachee; probably Creek; extending to southern New England tribes
6 1592-1593 Measles Sinaloa
7 1601-1602 Diphtheria Central New Spain to Sinaloa
8 1602 Measles Sinaloa
9 1611 Typhus Sinaloa
10 1612-1619 Bubonic Plague New Spain to Florida and New England
11 1633-1634 Measles New England, New France, and Great Lakes groups; Native Americans near Boston and Plymouth to Mohawks, Oneidas, Hurons, Montagnais, New Narragansetts, Delawares, etc.
12 1647 Influenza New England tribes
13 1658-1659 Measles Canadian tribes; Florida peoples to Mexico City-with diphtheria
14 1659 Diphtheria New England and Canadian tribes
15 1675 Influenza Iroquois and New England tribes
16 1692-1693 Measles Illinois peoples; Oneidas
17 1696-1698 Influenza Possible component with smallpox epidemic among Gulf Coast and southeastern peoples
18 1713-1715 Measles New England tribes to Illinois
19 1720 Typhus “Marseilles Fever”among Naskapi
20 1727-1728 Measles Mexico City to California tribes; Florida peoples; possibly New England groups
21 1742 Typhus Lower California tribes; possibly Choctaw
22 1746 Influenza Possible component with smallpox epidemic among northeastern tribes
23 1759-1760 Measles Possibly southeastern peoples
24 1761 Influenza All Native Americans in North America
25 1767 Bubonic Plague Louisiana peoples
26 1776-1778 Measles Possibly in Plains, Hudson Bay, and Texas tribes
27 1779-1783 Influenza Possible accompaniment to continental smallpox pandemic
28 1784-1787 Diphtheria New Spain
29 1803 Measles Caddoan tribes
30 1819 Measles Lac Seul Ojibwa
31 1832-1834 Cholera Potawatomi, Winnebago, Menominee, Ojibwa, Mexican tribes, Panya
32 1837 Measles Florida Seminoles
33 1849 Cholera Kiowa, Pawnee, Ojibwa, Menominee, Brule, Sioux, Maricopa, Pima, Papago
34 1867 Cholera Plains tribes, Wichita, Caddo, Pima
35 1880-1889 1 Diphtheria Kutchin of Arctic Canada
36 1887 Measles Walapai
37 1889-1890 Influenza Indian Territory reservation tribes
38 1892 Measles Indian Territory reservation tribes
39 1892 Influenza Indian Territory reservation tribes
40 1918 Influenza All Native Americans in North America



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