Pandemic history

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  • 800 BCE

    Before the agriculture

    Before the agriculture
    Our ancient ancestors lived in small isolated tribe that had very little oportunitiy to spred yerm into their comunity
  • 500 BCE

    After the advent of agriculture

    After the advent of agriculture
    Tribes abandoned their nomadic lifestyles and organized into sedentary, creating stacionary civilizations.
  • 541

    The plague of justinian

    The plague of justinian
    The first major pandemic of the world, commonly known as the bubonic plague was caused by a phatogen carried by rats and transfered to humans through fleas; this pandemic killed about a quarter of the Earth’s population(25 to 50 million people).
  • 1347

    Black dead

    Black dead
    Ships returned to the shores of sicily filled whit sailors stricken by a misterious illness that forms dark swelligs or buboins and the armpits and groin.
    In this pandemic the term quarantine emerged.

  • Spanish flu

    Spanish flu
    Impacted young adults and a half died; spanish flu claimed the lives of 50 to 100 million.

  • Coronavirus

    Coronavirus
    On average there have been 1.75 million infections and 43,605 deaths. In December 2019, there was an epidemic outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, Hubei province, China; which, as Reporters Without Borders later stated, affected more than 60 people on the 20th of that month.
    Currently we continue to recover economically, socially and in many other areas.