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Period: 541 BCE to 542 BCE
Plague of Justinian
Justinian himself became seriously ill, to the point that a rumor circulated that he was on the verge of death.
According to Procopio, the plague killed between five and ten thousand people a day, an estimate perhaps exaggerated, but which gives an idea of the panic created when the situation got out of control. -
Period: 1345 to 1351
Black death
The plague reached Europe in October, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked in the Sicilian port of Messina. The people gathered at the docks were met with a horrible surprise: most of the sailors on board the ships were dead and those who were still alive were seriously ill and covered in black boils that oozed blood and pus. -
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Spanish Flu
It is estimated that around 500 million people, or a third of the world's population, were infected with this virus, and the number of deaths worldwide was estimated at at least 50 million, of which some 675,000 occurred in the United States. United. -
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Smallpox
Smallpox was once one of the most severe infectious diseases that was endemic throughout the world for most of recorded history. It is caused by the varicella virus (a DNA virus and part of the Poxviridae family). This disease killed and disfigured countless millions of people globally.
Edward Jenner (1749-1823) era primer para utilizar la vacuna para proteger contra viruela en 1796. -
COVID-19
At the end of 2019 in December, Wuhan, China became the epicenter of an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology that did not respond to currently used treatments. In a few days the contagious disease increased exponentially not only in Mainland China. Also in different countries.