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Though we are all familiar with the Black Plague of 1346-53, a similar event occured around the world as late as the 20th century.
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After an invasion of rats into Morocco, officials ordered sick animals to be put down or captured. Within 5 days, plague cases started to be reported, and over 10,000 deaths.
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Across America, over 7,000 reported deaths resulted from the worst polio outbreak in American history.
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Just after World War 1, the world was rocked by what is commonly thought of as the worst pandemic in the 20th century.
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In 1949 and 1952, polio once again swept the country, together killing about 6,000 people.
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Beginning in the Far East, this flu outbreak infected mostly school children, young adults, pregnant woman, and the elderly.
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This was the 7th of over 100 years worth of cholera outbreaks raging across Asia, North Africa and Southern Europe.
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A small smallpox outbreak occurred in Serbia, spread by citizens returning to Serbia from the Middle East.
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A series of smallpox outbreaks erupted in India, leaving 15000 people dead, and thousands more blinded or disfigured.
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In 1994, a plague swept the Indian peninsula, resulting in 56 deaths in 5 states of India, and it triggered the largest post-independance migration of people in India, over 300,000 people fleeing the plague in Gujurat.
