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The following is a list of diseases by year of discovery.
| Year | Disease | Discoverer |
|---|---|---|
| 3000 BC (eradicated May 8, 1980) | Smallpox | |
| 2600 BC | Malaria [1] | |
| 1900 BC | Rabies | |
| 1600 BC | Cancer | |
| 1500 BC | Diabetes | |
| ca 300 | Dengue | First Jin Dynasty |
| 9th century | Measles | Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi |
| 14th century | African trypanosomiasis | First described by Arab traders [2] |
| 15th century | Typhus | |
| 1798 | Color blindness | John Dalton |
| 1798 | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | John Dalton |
| 1866 | Necrotizing arteriolitis | Kussmal and Maier |
| 1881 | Impetigo | William Fox |
| 1885 | Carrion's disease | Daniel Alcides Carrión |
| 1906 | Alzheimer's disease | Alois Alzheimer |
| 1906 | Rickettsiosis | Howard Taylor Ricketts |
| 1910 | Sickle-cell disease | James B. Herrick |
| 1965 | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
| 1967 | Marburg virus disease | |
| 1972 | Norovirus | Albert Kapikian |
| 1976 | Ebola virus disease | Peter Piot |
| 1977 | Legionnaires' disease | Joseph McDade |
| June 5, 1981 | HIV/AIDs | Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo |
| 1986 | Fatal insomnia | Elio Lugaresi |
| November 2019 | COVID-19 | Li Wenliang |