List of diseases by year of discovery

The following is a list of diseases by year of discovery.

Year Specialty Disease Discoverer
~2600 BCE Infectious diseases Malaria[1]
~1900 BCE Infectious diseases Rabies
~1600 BCE Oncology Cancer
~1500 BCE Infectious diseases Smallpox
~1500 BCE Endocrinology Diabetes
~410 BCE Infectious diseases Mumps
~400 BCE Hepatology Hepatitis
~300 BCE Infectious diseases Dengue fever
4th century Infectious diseases Pneumonia
9th century Infectious diseases Measles Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
14th century Infectious diseases African trypanosomiasis First described by Arab traders[2]
15th century Infectious diseases Typhus
1798 Ophthalmology Color blindness John Dalton
1798 Neurology Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis John Dalton
1805 Neurology Meningitis
1817 Neurology Parkinson's disease James Parkinson
1866 Immunology Necrotizing arteriolitis
1872 Neurology Huntington's disease George Huntington
1873 Infectious diseases Leprosy Gerhard Armauer Hansen
1881 Dermatology Impetigo William Fox
1881 Infectious diseases Yellow fever Carlos Finlay
1882 Infectious diseases Tuberculosis Robert Koch
1885 Infectious diseases Carrion's disease Daniel Alcides Carrión
1906 Neurology Alzheimer's disease Alois Alzheimer
1906 Infectious diseases Rickettsiosis Howard Taylor Ricketts
1909 Infectious diseases Chagas disease Carlos Chagas
1910 Hematology Sickle-cell disease James B. Herrick
1920 Neurology Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob
1933 Infectious diseases Influenza Wilson Smith, Christopher Andrewes and Patrick Laidlaw
1955 Infectious diseases Oropouche fever
1957 Neurology Kuru Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
1958 Infectious diseases Mpox
1964 Infectious diseases Infectious mononucleosis Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr
1965 Pulmonology Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
1967 Infectious diseases Marburg virus disease
1972 Infectious diseases Norovirus (Gastroenteritis) Albert Kapikian
1975 Infectious diseases Lyme disease
1976 Infectious diseases Ebola Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum and Peter Piot
1977 Infectious diseases Legionnaires' disease Joseph McDade
1981 Immunology HIV/AIDS Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo
1986 Neurology Fatal insomnia Elio Lugaresi
1999 Infectious diseases Nipah virus infection
2003 Infectious diseases Severe acute respiratory syndrome
2019 Infectious diseases COVID-19 Li Wenliang

See also

References

  1. ^ Cox, F. E. G. (1 October 2002). "History of Human Parasitology". Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 15 (4): 595–612. Bibcode:2002CliMR..15..595C. doi:10.1128/CMR.15.4.595-612.2002. PMC 126866. PMID 12364371.
  2. ^ Strong RP (1944). Stitt's Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases (Seventh ed.). York, PA: The Blakiston company. p. 165.
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