the worst pandemics in the history

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  • 541 BCE

    plague of justinian

    plague of justinian
    was the beginning of the first plague pandemic, the first Old World pandemic of plague, the contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
  • Jan 1, 1346

    bubonic plague

    bubonic plague
    was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s.

  • smallpox

    smallpox
    first it came to haiti then to mexico where it expanded to south and central america.
    and arrived in the United States a short time later.
    20 million dead, the 90% of the pre-columbian population

  • spanish flu

    spanish flu
    was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. Lasting from February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people. in four successive waves. The death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 17 million and 50 million,

  • covid-19

    covid-19
    The current pandemic, started in China and spreads to the whole world and has claimed more than 1.56 million deaths and there are more than 68 million cases