List of diseases by year of discovery From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The following is a list of diseases by year of discovery. More information Year, Specialty ... Year SpecialtyDiseaseDiscoverer ~2600 BCE Infectious diseasesMalaria[1] ~1900 BCE Infectious diseasesRabies ~1600 BCE OncologyCancer ~1500 BCE Infectious diseasesSmallpox ~1500 BCE EndocrinologyDiabetes ~410 BCE Infectious diseases Mumps ~400 BCE Hepatology Hepatitis ~300 BCE Infectious diseasesDengue fever 4th century Infectious diseases Pneumonia 9th century Infectious diseasesMeaslesMuhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi 14th century Infectious diseasesAfrican trypanosomiasisFirst described by Arab traders[2] 15th century Infectious diseasesTyphus 1798 OphthalmologyColor blindnessJohn Dalton 1798 NeurologyAmyotrophic lateral sclerosisJohn Dalton 1805 Neurology Meningitis 1817 Neurology Parkinson's disease James Parkinson 1866 Immunology Necrotizing arteriolitis 1872 Neurology Huntington's disease George Huntington 1873 Infectious diseases Leprosy Gerhard Armauer Hansen 1881 DermatologyImpetigoWilliam Fox 1881 Infectious diseases Yellow fever Carlos Finlay 1882 Infectious diseases Tuberculosis Robert Koch 1885 Infectious diseasesCarrion's diseaseDaniel Alcides Carrión 1906 NeurologyAlzheimer's diseaseAlois Alzheimer 1906 Infectious diseasesRickettsiosisHoward Taylor Ricketts 1909 Infectious diseases Chagas disease Carlos Chagas 1910 HematologySickle-cell diseaseJames B. Herrick 1920 Neurology Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob 1933 Infectious diseases Influenza Wilson Smith, Christopher Andrewes and Patrick Laidlaw 1955 Infectious diseases Oropouche fever 1957 Neurology Kuru Daniel Carleton Gajdusek 1958 Infectious diseases Mpox 1964 Infectious diseases Infectious mononucleosis Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr 1965 PulmonologyChronic obstructive pulmonary disease 1967 Infectious diseasesMarburg virus disease 1972 Infectious diseasesNorovirus (Gastroenteritis)Albert Kapikian 1975 Infectious diseases Lyme disease 1976 Infectious diseasesEbolaJean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum and Peter Piot 1977 Infectious diseasesLegionnaires' diseaseJoseph McDade 1981 ImmunologyHIV/AIDSLuc Montagnier and Robert Gallo 1986 NeurologyFatal insomniaElio Lugaresi 1999 Infectious diseases Nipah virus infection 2003 Infectious diseases Severe acute respiratory syndrome 2019 Infectious diseasesCOVID-19Li Wenliang Close See also Lists of diseases List of drugs List of drugs by year of discovery History of medicine History of emerging infectious diseases References [1]Cox, F. E. G. (1 October 2002). "History of Human Parasitology". Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 15 (4): 595–612. Bibcode:2002CliMR..15..595C. doi:10.1128/CMR.15.4.595-612.2002. PMC 126866. PMID 12364371. [2]Strong RP (1944). Stitt's Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases (Seventh ed.). York, PA: The Blakiston company. p. 165. Related Articles~TimelinesTop QsFact Checks