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From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri.

Major US Epidemics

Brief timeline with death tolls from some of the major epidemics in US history.

Man and Microbes : Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times

A book by Arno Karlen.

New Jersey Hot Zones! : Viruses, Diseases, & Epidemics in Our State's History

A book by Carole Marsh.

NZ Society of Genealogists -1918 Flu Pandemic $

A list of those who died in Auckland and are buried in Waikumete Cemetery.

OntarioGenWeb - Epidemics

Historic epidemics in the province of Ontario.

Open Collections Program: Contagion - Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics

A digital library collection from Harvard University's libraries. Organized by date & location of the epidemics, these materials include digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts

Oshkosh in 1918: An interdisciplinary study of the 1918 influenza epidemic

From the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

Plague in San Francisco: An Essay Review

From the Journal of the History of Medicine.

Plagues & Epidemics

From a history of plumbing, this site focuses on this history of water-borne diseases.

Plagues and Peoples

A book by William H. McNeill.

Plagues by State, City, Date

A history of plagues & epidemics, mostly US.
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Poisons of the Past : Molds, Epidemics, and History

A book by Mary Kilbourne Matossian.

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

A book by Elizabeth A. Fenn.

Quarantine! : East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

A book by Marilyn Chase.

The Cholera Years : The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

A book by Charles E. Rosenberg.

The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878

A book by Khaled J. Bloom.

The Most Dangerous Epidemics in U.S. History

The National Archives - Public health and epidemics in the 19th and 20th centuries

Research Guide from the National Archives, United Kingdom.