Global Outbreak Atlas

1,500 years of pandemic history on one map

Click any country or select a pandemic from the list to load a historical briefing, mortality estimate, and pathogen profile. Pink target rings mark each outbreak's documented origin point — from the Antonine Plague to COVID-19. Use the search bar to filter across the full dataset.

12 tracked outbreaks 165 CE → present historic + current

Current Focus

541 CE

Select an outbreak to update the live scan marker and briefing.

Map Archive

Global Spread Nodes

Targeted outbreak points

Earliest: 541 CE Latest: 2019

Interactive Map

Pandemic origin countries

Zoom, drag, and click highlighted countries to inspect where each pandemic first emerged in the historical record.

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Briefing

Select a pandemic

origin node fatality estimate pathogen

The map is tuned around outbreak nodes rather than country fills, which fits the pandemic theme better than the old crisis-by-country treatment.

Pick anything from Plague of Justinian to COVID-19 and the panel will swap to a short narrative, era tag, region, and mortality estimate.