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This terrible plague began in 541 BC and is considered the first great plague of mankind. Ser believed to have started in Egypt and then spread across three continents by means of merchant ships carrying rats that carried the disease. The name of the plague is taken from the Byzantine emperor Justinian. This emperor was trying to rebuild his empire to go back to the days of glorious Rome, but the plague attacked in full force.
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The Black Death refers to the most devastating plague pandemic in human history that affected Eurasia in the 14th century and peaked between 1347 and 1353. The death toll is difficult to know, but contemporary models estimate them between 75 to 200 million, equivalent to 30-60% of the population of Europe, being approximately one third The accepted theory about the origin of the plague explains that it was an outbreak caused by a variant of the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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The Spanish flu was a pandemic caused by an outbreak of the influenza type A virus. Unlike other flu epidemics that mainly affect children and the elderly, its victims were also young and healthy adults, and also animals, including cats and dogs. It is considered the most devastating pandemic in human history, killing between 20 and 40 million people in just one year. This death toll, which included high infant mortality, is considered one of the examples of a mortality crisis.
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Probably the most catastrophic pandemic in the history of mankind, the current world is based on a global economy, an economy that fell thanks to this pandemic, the death toll already passed 1.5 million, this pandemic is not catastrophic due to deaths, this is Considered this way because of the number of unemployed, because of the stock market falls at the global level, because of the isolation that already lasts for 1 year.