5 Deadliest Pandemic In Human History
April 24, 2020Pandemic vs Human Death
1.Black death (Bacterium Yersinia)
The plague originated in rats and spreaded to humans via infected fleas.
The outbreak wiped out 30% to 50% of Europe population. It took more than 200 years for the continents population(European) to recover.
the plague arrived in Europe in October 1345,when 12 ships from black sea docked at Sicilian port of Messina.
In Europe during 1800s ,an estimated 400,000 people were being killed by smallpox annually.
On may 8, 1980, the 33th world health assembly of officially declared the world free of this disease.
3.Spanish flu
The Spanish flu infected and estimated 500 million people worldwide about one-third of the planets population and killed and estimated 22 to 50 million victims.It was first observed in Europe.
4.Justinian plague (AD 541)(Yersinia Pestis)
Plague may started in Egypt and was carried to other continents by merchant ship .It killed roughly 300,000 people there in the first year.
The plague got its name from the present Byzantine emperor Justinian.
In the 1980s and early 1990s , the outbreak of HIV and AIDS spread across the United state and rest of the world. Through the disease originated decade earlier today more than 70 million people have been infected with HIV and about 35 million have died form AIDS, since the start of the pandemic according to the world health organisation.
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