Most people think that Coronavirus is the worst pandemic in the world. the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and others prominent in the field have estimated that when all is said and done Covid-19’s mortality rate will be around 1%, 10 times higher than average for the seasonal flu. The mortality rates for past pandemics have been far higher. Middle Ages Europe’s 14th-century plague is estimated to have killed between 30% and 60% of the population . Old-world diseases which Europeans had developed a resistance and immunity to are estimated to have killed between 25% to 50% of many Native American tribes in post-Columbian 16th-century North America.
Cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza are some of the most brutal killers in human history. And outbreaks of these diseases across international borders, are properly defined as pandemic, especially smallpox, which throughout history, has killed between 300-500 million people in its 12,000 year existence.
Smallpox Pandemic, 1877-1977
One of history's deadliest diseases, Smallpox is a viral infectious disease that causes a significant skin rash and fever. The earliest evidence for the disease comes from the Egyptian. The disease later spread along trade routes in Asia, Africa, and Europe, eventually reaching the Americas in the 1500s. Today, the virus only exists in two secure laboratory facilities in the U.S. and Russia. Smallpox is estimated to have killed up to 300 million people in the 20th century and around 500 million people in the last 100 years of its existence.
Black Death Plague, 1347-1351
Bubonic plague is a type of infection caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium which is spread mostly by fleas on rodents and other animals. The plague that caused the Black Death originated in China and spread along trade routes westward to the Mediterranean and northern Africa. plague cases still pop up sporadically around the world—including in the United States or China. In the 14th century Black Death infected 200million and killed 25million of the entire global population.
Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918-1919
was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in Kansas, United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of the global population, or an estimated 500 million people, had been infected and between 17 to 50 million were killed in four successive waves.
Coronavirus - 2016
COVID-19 is a type of viral respiratory infection caused by a coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. Cases were first reported in Wuhan in China in December 2019, and since then it has spread around the world, becoming one of the deadliest pandemics in history. As of july 2022, 560 million cases have been reported and the total deaths are 6.37 million.
HIV/AIDS Pandemic, 1981
The HIV/AIDS Global Pandemic persists to the present. In 2020, 37.7 million people globally had HIV, 1.5 million people acquired the disease, and it caused the deaths of 680,000 people. AIDS-related deaths have steadily dropped from the 1.9 million that died from the disease in 2005.
Hong Kong Flu, 1968-1970
It was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus, descended from H2N2 through antigenic shift, a genetic process in which genes from multiple subtypes reassortment to form a new virus. The first cases of the virus outbreak that year began to appear in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou. flu pandemic whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969 killed an estimated one million people worldwide.
SIXTH CHOLERA PANDEMIC 1899-1923
the Sixth Cholera Pandemic originated in India where it killed over 800,000, before spreading to the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and Russia. The Sixth Cholera Pandemic was also the source of the last American outbreak of Cholera . American health authorities, quickly sought to isolate the infected, and in the end only 11 deaths occurred in the U.S. By 1923 Cholera cases had been cut down dramatically.Ebola virus 2013 - 2016
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease , is a type of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by ebolaviruses. It was first identified in 1976 in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo at a village near the Ebola River. Since then, there have been numerous outbreaks across sub-Saharan Africa. However, the only one that spread throughout West Africa and even crossed borders lasted from December 2013 to January 2016. This flu infected 30,000 and killed between 12 thousand people.
SARS
This pandemic involved a respiratory disease known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The disease was caused by a type of virus known as the “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus” (SARS-CoV). The virus was spread through respiratory droplets.
The outbreak first started in China on 16 November 2002, and from there, it spread to 30 countries around the world. It lasted about 18 months before it slowly diminished, and by May 2004, no cases were being reported. through this virous 10,000 of people were infacted and between 2000 of peoples died
MERS CoV
Another viral respiratory infection caused by a coronavirus is the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome . The virus responsible is known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
It also spread through contact with an infected person.
While cases of MERS have been seen worldwide since the initial outbreak in 2012, it is uncommon outside of hospitals. by this virous as of july 2022, 2500 cases are reported and between 1000 peoples are dead.
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