Pandemics history

Plague of Justinian

541 BCE

541
Byzantine Empire Sania pestis, commonly known as bubonic plague, was the bacteria responsible. This pathogen was carried by rats and transferred to humans via fleas. 1/4 of the earth's population had died (25-50 million people)

Black Death

1347

1347-1351
Sicily Black plague (disease that forms dark swellings or buboes in the armpits and groin) One of the measures they took to prevent this infection was to ban sailors for 40 days, in Italy this was called "Quaranta giorni" which means 40 days, explaining where the word quarantine comes from that we use today. 100-200 million dead (⅓ of global population)

Colonization of the Americas

1500

1500-1810 Native Americans lacked any kind of immunity to these foreign pathogens and once exposed more than 20 million. or 90% of the pre-Columbian population would be annihilated

Spanish Flu

1918

The most recent massive pandemic hit in 1918 and infected 500 million worldwide. Affecting young adults (people who died were in their 20s and 40s and 99% were under 65). 50 to 100 million deaths (4% of global population).

Covid-19

2019

2019-nowadays Symptoms: fever, cough, tiredness, loss of taste or smell To overcome this pandemic, what we need most is to be prepared, we must not wait until the last second to act. Learn from the last pandemic in history, to know what we can do.