The fiery serpent: Guinea worm
The plague of Athens: unknown disease
The plague of Justinian: bubonic plague
A vicious cycle: smallpox
Message from a sacred mountain: smallpox
Saint Anthony's fire: ergotism
The knights of Lazarus: leprosy (Hansen's disease)
China's plague: bubonic plague
The black death: bubonic plague
The sweating sickness: unknown disease
The first invaders: influenza
The French disease: syphilis
The dancing plague: mass psychogenic illness
The fall of Moctezuma: smallpox
The lost cure for scurvy: scurvy
The king's evil: scrofula
Squanto's backstory: unknown disease
The first miracle cure: malaria
The great plague of London: bubonic plague
Scourge of a young nation's capital: yellow fever
Peeing red: schistosomiasis
The romantic disease: tuberculosis
The Haitian revolution: yellow fever
Birth of a pandemic: cholera
Childbed fever: uterine infection
Exiled on Molokai: leprosy (Hansen's disease)
Beat of the death-drum: measles
Tunnel of anemia: hookworm
Rabies loses its bite: rabies
The Beriberi box: beriberi
The Chinatown plague: bubonic plague
Down by the riverside: sleeping sickness
Typhoid Mary and friends: typhoid fever
An unpopular discovery: pellagra
The "Spanish" flu: influenza
Serum by dogsled: diphtheria
Just another horror: typhus
The beginning of the end for polio: polio
Breakbone fever: Dengue hemorrhagic fever
The brain-eating amoeba: primary amebic meningoencephalitis
The leak from compound 19: anthrax
AIDS panic and progress: AIDS
Mad cow spreads to humans: transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
The locker room menace: MRSA
The secret epidemic: SARS
