Epidemics in 1591, 1593, 1597, 1626.
1647
Noah Webster states, “For the first time Influenza is mentioned in the history of U. S. America, but it must not be concluded in the absence of earlier records, that the disease never occurred in the U. S. A.”
Webster also cites from Hubbard, “the disease swept the Southern States and the plantations.”
The West Indies were ravaged and had an extensive morbidity; on each of the Islands of Barbadoes and St. Kitts there were 5,000 to 6,000 cases.
1658
Epidemic in Europe, started the end of April. Thomas Wills, M.D. of Oxford, says, “the cause of the disease was a Blast from the Stars.”
1675
Epidemic, ravaged Germany.