List of diseases by year of discovery

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

Year Specialty Disease Discoverer Notes ~2600 BCE Infectious diseases Malaria ~1900 BCE Infectious diseases Rabies ~1600 BCE Oncology Cancer ~1500 BCE Infectious diseases Smallpox ~1500 BCE Endocrinology Diabetes ~410 BCEInfectious diseasesMumps~400 BCEHepatologyHepatitis ~300 BCE Infectious diseases Dengue fever4th centuryInfectious diseasesPneumonia 9th century Infectious diseases Measles Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi 14th century Infectious diseases African trypanosomiasis First described by Arab traders 15th century Infectious diseases Typhus 1798 Ophthalmology Color blindness John Dalton 1798 Neurology Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis John Dalton1805NeurologyMeningitis1817NeurologyParkinson's diseaseJames Parkinson1866ImmunologyNecrotizing arteriolitis1872NeurologyHuntington's diseaseGeorge Huntington1873Infectious diseasesLeprosyGerhard Armauer HansenWhile Hansen described the bacterium (Mycobacterium leprae) which causes leprosy, the disease was known about as early as 1400 BCE. M. leprae was the first bacterium recognized to cause illness in humans. 1879 Infectious diseases PsittacosisJacob RitterRitter initially described the disease as "pneumotyphus", with "psittacosis" first being used in 1893. The bacterium Chlamydia psittaci was discovered in 1930 by Samuel Bedson and colleagues, though it was misidentified as a virus. 1881 Dermatology Impetigo William Fox1881Infectious diseasesYellow feverCarlos Finlay1882Infectious diseasesTuberculosisRobert Koch 1885 Infectious diseases Carrion's disease Daniel Alcides Carrión 1906 Neurology Alzheimer's disease Alois Alzheimer 1906 Infectious diseases Rickettsiosis Howard Taylor Ricketts1909Infectious diseasesChagas diseaseCarlos Chagas 1910 Hematology Sickle-cell disease James B. Herrick1920NeurologyCreutzfeldt–Jakob diseaseHans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob1933Infectious diseasesInfluenzaWilson Smith, Christopher Andrewes and Patrick Laidlaw1955Infectious diseasesOropouche fever1957NeurologyKuruDaniel Carleton Gajdusek1958Infectious diseasesMpox1964Infectious diseasesInfectious mononucleosisAnthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr 1965 Pulmonology Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 1967 Infectious diseases Marburg virus disease 1972 Infectious diseases Norovirus (Gastroenteritis) Albert Kapikian1975Infectious diseasesLyme 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 Lugaresi1999Infectious diseasesNipah virus infection2003Infectious diseasesSevere acute respiratory syndrome 2019 Infectious diseases COVID-19 Li Wenliang

See also

Lists of diseases List of drugs List of drugs by year of discovery History of medicine History of emerging infectious diseases

References