New Philosopher – July 2019

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What:

Tuberculosis

Death toll:

1,000,000,

When:

1800-present

What:

Malaria

Death toll:

80-250,000,

When:

1900-present

What:

Bubonic Plague v

Death toll:

12,000,

When:

1855–

What:

Measles

Death toll:

200,000,

When:

1840-present

What:

Plague of

Justinian

Death toll:

25-50,000,

When:

540–

What:

Smallpox

Death toll:

300,000,

When:

1900 to 1980

What:

Spanish flu

Death toll:

50–100,000,

When:

1918–

What:

Antonine Plague

Death toll:

5,000,

When:

165–

What:

Black Death

Death toll:

100,000,

When:

1331–

What:

AIDS

Death toll:

30,000,

When:

1960–present

Famine

Great Chinese Famine
1958–1961: up to
43,000,000 dead.

Flood

China floods

1931: up to

4,000,000 dead.^

Volcano

Mount Tambora

April 10, 1815:

71,000 dead.

Earthquake

Shaanxi earthquake

January 23, 1556:

830,000 dead.

Heat wave

European heat wave

2003: 70,000 dead.

Cyclone

Bhola cyclone

November 13, 1970:

500,000 dead.

Blizzard

Iran blizzard

1972: 4,000 dead.

Tsunami

Boxing Day tsunami

December 26, 2004:

227,898 dead.

Wildfire

Peshtigo fire

October 8, 1871:

1,200–2,500 dead.

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