Plagues

Plagues listed in GURPS Infinite Worldspg 99:
Name 	dates 	disease 	deaths
Plague of Sennacherib 	708 BC 	smallpox? 	25 million
Plague of Justinian 	542-543 CE
recurrences until 750	bubonic plague 	25–100 million
Black Death 	1346-1350	bubonic plague 	75–200 million
Pox Americana 	1775-1782	smallpox 	25 million
Urban Cholera Epidemics	1826-1837	Cholera 	15 million (1817-1860)
Spanish Flu 	1918-1919	H1N1 influenza virus	17–50 million
==References==
*The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
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