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As we all know humanity at this moment is going through a very dark moment in our history, COVID-19 threatens to exterminate a large part of humanity, the world is shocked by this virus that is advancing rapidly without an apparent enemy other than prevention, demonstrating how vulnerable we are to an enemy of this nature.
But the coronavirus is not the first pandemic that humanity faces, over time the human being has been tested for different diseases that appear suddenly, spreading rapidly, filling different countries and continents with fear and death.
Let's take a short tour of some of the deadliest plagues that have plagued humanity:
Plague Antonina.
Also known as the Galician plague, in honor of the doctor who discovered it, it caused 5 million deaths between 165 and 180 AD, due to its antiquity it is very difficult to obtain exact data, however, after investigations it was determined that it was the disease smallpox and measles.
It is estimated that around 5 million people died, this represented a third of the population in some areas.
Black Death.
Between 1347 and 1351 it was unleashed among what they describe as the "worst Biological disaster" that humanity has lived, it is estimated that the black plague killed around 200 million people, the disease spread rapidly throughout Europe and Asia because the The infectious agent was housed in the fleas of black rats, which used merchant ships as a means of transportation.
The exact number of deaths is unknown, but according to reports the black plague killed 30% of the European population, however, there are contrasts that claim that it would be 60% of the population.
Smallpox.
A disease that appeared in Europe in the 18th century caused by the variola virus, spread rapidly due to the rapid growth of the population on the continent. After affecting Europe, the disease was transmitted to America at the time of the conquest of the American territory in 1520.
Smallpox is considered the second largest pandemic in history, there are studies that claim that it killed 90% of the Native American population and its mortality rate is 30%. It is said to have been eradicated in 1980.
Spanish flu.
The Spanish flu is believed to be in third place of the most lethal pandemic that humanity has experienced, originated in the United States and is estimated to have affected around 600 million people worldwide, approximately 27% of the global population. . This would be the first time a flu case known as H1N1 occurred.
It is said that the Spanish flu had a 20% mortality rate, and is named "Spanish Flu" because Spain was the only country that reported all those affected, since it was not involved in the war, reason why the information was not censored, however, they assure that the United States and Germany had the highest number of deaths.
All these deadly pandemics are followed by cholera with 3 million deaths between 1817 and 1923; Yellow fever 150 thousand deaths at the end of the 19th century, according to scientists, its death rate was 50%; HIV / AIDS from 1981 to present has caused 39 million deaths.
According to the WHO, there are currently around 37 million people infected with HIV worldwide, in 2018 alone, 770 thousand people died with the disease; Swine Flu follows 200 thousand deaths between 2009 and 2016; Ebola 11 thousand deaths between 2014 and 2016.
Conclusion.
The year 2020 dawned with the news that a new threat was coming over the world, about three months have passed approximately when the world knew the news and began a battle for life against COVID-19.
For the closing of this publication the numbers that the coronavirus is leaving are the following: more than 756,000 infected and more than 36,000 dead in 194 countries and counting.
We do not know when this will end, we have to abide by all the prevention protocols established by the WHO, the different governments and the health authorities of each country.
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