Template:History of infectious diseases

v t e History of infectious diseases
Individual diseases	Cholera HIV/AIDS Leprosy Malaria Plague Polio Smallpox Syphilis Tuberculosis Typhoid fever Yellow fever
People	Alexander Fleming Maurice Hilleman Edward Jenner Robert Koch Louis Pasteur Jonas Salk Ignaz Semmelweis John Snow Israel Jacob Kligler
Major epidemics	Black Death (1346–1353) Spanish flu (1918–1920) HIV/AIDS pandemic (1981–present) COVID-19 pandemic (2019–present*)
Other	Discovery of disease-causing pathogens Smallpox eradication Social history of viruses