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541 BCE
Plague of justinian
The Plague of Justinian (541-549 AD) was an epidemic that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East. The disease is named by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, who contracted the diseases and recovered in 542. The epidemic killed about a fifth of the population in the imperial capital. The contagion arrived in Roman Egypt in 541, spread around the Mediterranean Sea until 544, and persisted in Northern Europe and the Near East and impacted on Eastern Roman society. -
Period: 541 BCE to
pandemic timeline
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1347
Black death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the deaths of approximately 40% to 60% of Europe's population peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351 -
1350
smallpox
Smallpox was around for centuries and was a persistent menace that killed three out of the ten people it infected and left the rest with pockmarked scars. The people in Mexico and the US has zero immunity to smallpox and the virus cut them down by the tens of millions. There hasn't been a kill off in human history to match what happened in the Americas as 90-05 percent on the indigenous population wiped out over a century. Mexico went from 11 million people to 1 million. -
The Great Plague of London
The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. -
Asian Flu
Starting in Hong Kong and spreading throughout China and then to the US, the Asian flu became widespread in England and in over six months, 14,00 people have died. A second wave followed in early 1958, causing an estimated total of about 1.1 million deaths globally, with 116,00 deaths in the US alone. A vaccine was developed effectively containing the pandemic. -
cholera
Cholera tore through England and killed tens of thousands. The theory of the disease was spread by foul air known as a "miasma". But the disease was spread and lurked in London's drinking water, a 10 day period chart showed 500 fatal infections surrounding a popular city that was well for drinking water. The removal of a pump handle dried up the infections and improved urban sanitation and protected drinking water. Cholera has been large eradicated but persistent in 4rd world countries -
HIV/AIDS
AIDS destroys a person's immune system and results in eventual death by diseases that the body would usually fight off. Those affected by the HIV virus encounter fever, headache, and enlarged lymph nodes upon infection. This disease is highly infectious to blood and genital fluid, and destroys t-cells. It developed from a chimpanzee virus from West Africa in the 1920s and spread from there to US. 35 million people worldwide have died of AIDS since the discovery. A cure is yet to be found. -
covid 19
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the COVID-19 virus was officially a pandemic after barreling through 114 countries in three months and infecting over 118,000 people. And the spread wasn’t anywhere near finished. The virus spread beyond Chinese borders to nearly every country in the world. By December 2020, it had infected more than 75 million people and led to more than 1.6 million deaths worldwide. The virus continues to rise a variants of it emerged.