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History of Pandemics

April 26 , 2020 1809 days 1017 0
  • The COVID-19 has killed thousands and has indented a bad and deep history of economic crisis.
  • It has locked down almost every super economic power in the world. 
  • There were several other Pandemics in the history that created equal impacts. 
  • They are Justinian Plague, Black Death and Spanish Flu.
  • The Justinian Plague was the deadliest pandemic that broke in 6th century.
  • It had spread from Egypt to Constantinople. 
  • The Black Death killed more than 200 million. 
  • It struck China, Syria, India and Egypt.
  • The disease arrived in Europe in 1347.
  • The Spanish Flu broke during the last phase of World War I. 
  • It was recorded in Europe and later spread to Asia and America. 
  • The disease weakened German units in the First Wold War and was still considered as one of the reasons for the fall of Germany in the war.

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