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Feb 27, 2019 · See a timeline below of pandemics that, in ravaging human populations, changed history. 430 B.C.: Athens. The earliest recorded pandemic happened during the Peloponnesian War. After the...
Pandemics timeline death tolls. This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included.
EventYearsLocationDisease1350 BC plague of Megiddoc. 1350 BCMegiddo, land of CanaanAmarna letters EA 244, Biridiya, mayor of ...Hittite Plague /"Hand of Nergal"c. 1330 BCNear East, Hittite Empire, Alashiya, ...Unknown, possibly Tularemia. Mentioned in ...430–426 BCGreece, Libya, Egypt, EthiopiaUnknown, possibly typhus, typhoid fever ...412 BCGreece ( Northern Greece, Roman Republic ...Unknown, possibly influenzaDec 7, 2023 · This overview shows us the vast impact that pandemics have had over history. You can see that the largest pandemics – such as the Black Death – killed more than half of the population. Several pandemics have swept through the population repeatedly: in just the last two hundred years, seven major pandemics were caused by cholera , and ...
Jan 15, 2021 · In this paper, we review major pandemics that have afflicted humankind throughout history such as plague, cholera, influenza and coronavirus diseases, the way they were controlled in the past and how these diseases are managed today.
- Jocelyne Piret, Guy Boivin
- 10.3389/fmicb.2020.631736
- 2021
- Front Microbiol. 2020; 11: 631736.
Apr 22, 2024 · Examples of significant historical pandemics include the plague pandemic of the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century ce; the Black Death, which originated in China and spread across Europe in the 14th century; and the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, which originated in the U.S. state of Kansas and spread to Europe, Asia, and islands in the ...
- Kara Rogers
- What is a pandemic?A pandemic is an outbreak of infectious disease that occurs over a wide geographical area and that is of high prevalence. A pandemic generally affe...
- What have been some of the world’s deadliest pandemics?Throughout history, there have been many deadly pandemics, but the Black Death and the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 rank among the most lethal. Th...
- What causes a pandemic?Pandemics can be caused by several factors. For example, in some cases, a new strain or subtype of virus that first emerged in animals jumps to hum...
- How do pandemics end?Pandemics typically slow and come to an end on their own, though the process may be accelerated through effective preventive strategies, such as im...
Sep 20, 2021 · Abstract. As we move amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we have witnessed tremendous distress, death, and turmoil of everyday life for more than one year now. However, they are not modern phenomena; deadly pandemics have happened throughout recorded history.
In a long succession throughout history, pandemic outbreaks have decimated societies, determined outcomes of wars, wiped out entire populations, but also, paradoxically, cleared the way for innovations and advances in sciences (including medicine and public health), economy, and political systems [ 2 ].
