Pandemic Activity

Plague of Justinian

541 BCE

The plague of Justinian was cause from a bacteria called Yersinia pestis. This plague had arrived in Constantinople in 541 BCE. It came from the Mederterianian Sea and it came from infected fleas that rode on black mice backs. This plague had killed 30 to 50 million people across Europe, Asia, North Africa and Arabia

The Black Plague

1347

The black plague was a plague that came from sailors and trades men. The plague had claimed 25 million lives in just over four years. Historians had claimed that is possibly took up to 200 million lives. This was the start of quarantine

The Great Plague of London (1348-1665)

1348

During this time there were 40 outbreaks in only over 300 years. At least 20 percent of men, women, and children were killed in Britain's capital. There were laws isolating people in the early 1500's in England. They had hoped that this would stop the spread

Small Pox

1500

It was an endemic to Europe, Asia and Arabia for centuries, a persistent menace that killed three out of ten people it infected and left the rest with pockmarked scars. It arrived in the 15th century from European explorers. During this time, the indigenous people didn't have the immunity so they were the ones that were killed off quicker because of this reason.

Cholera

1900

This had killed its victims within days of the first symptoms.
This was caused by their drinking water being tainted. This was found out by someone named John Snow. He found it coming from a frequently used drinking pump.

Spanish Flu

1918

An avian-borne flu that had resulted in 50 million deaths worldwide. It was first observed in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia before is quickly started spreading around the world. The in 1919 the flu threat disappeared in the summer because most of the infected had either developed immunities or died

HIV/AIDS

1981

AIDS destroys a person’s immune system, which is resulting in eventual death by diseases that the body would usually fight off. HIV virus encounter fever, headache, and enlarged lymph nodes upon infection. When symptoms subside, carriers become highly infectious through blood and genital fluid, and the disease destroys t-cells. People fight these off now by getting a shot for them

Sars

2003

Sars, also known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, is believed to have possibly started with bats, spread to cats and then to humans in China, followed by 26 other countries, infecting 8,096 people, with 774 deaths. During this time people tried to quarantine the best they could but sometimes that didn't work out for them