Timelines tagged “disease”
6 timelines
- Antibiotics
Antibacterial medicine from honey dressings in an Egyptian papyrus of about 1600 BCE through Salvarsan, penicillin and the mid-20th-century golden age of discovery to drug resistance, global targets and new antibiotics in 2025.
- Black Death
The Black Death's spread from Central Asia and the Crimea in 1346 across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe to 1353, its social and religious consequences, and recurrences of plague through the Moscow epidemic of 1770 – 1772.
- Cancer Treatment
How cancer has been treated, from an Egyptian surgical papyrus of about 1600 BCE through radical surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormone therapy to targeted drugs and cell-based immunotherapy approved in 2024.
- COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic from the Wuhan outbreak in 2019 to the 2025 pandemic agreement: global spread, social disruption, vaccines, variants, treatment, and the transition beyond the international emergency.
- Malaria
The history of malaria from Greek accounts of periodic fevers around 400 BCE through quinine, the discovery of the parasite and its mosquito vector, DDT-era eradication campaigns and artemisinin to the first vaccines in 2021 and 2023 and milestones through 2025.
- Vaccines
Vaccines and their forerunner variolation, from smallpox inoculation in 16th-century China through Jenner, Pasteur, the polio campaigns and the eradication of smallpox in 1980 to mRNA and RSV vaccines in 2020 – 2023.