Pandemics:Catastrophic Events of World History

Infectious diseases with the potential to become pandemic have consistently emerged and spread throughout history. Still infectious diseases continue to pose a threat to human health. As cities grew, trade routes were extended, travel increased and expanded human population, infectious diseases began to originate and spread, eventually causing pandemics.

An important route through which new illnesses have affected people throughout history is zoonotic transmission of pathogens from animals to humans. Implementing public health measures like isolation, quarantine, and border control over the ages served to keep infectious diseases under control and preserve the social order.

It is a well-known fact that nature always maintains its equilibrium. The rise and fall of several civilizations illustrates how the world is changed and put to the test at various points in time. Ecosystems had been impacted by numerous pandemics that came and went. These pandemics have left a lasting impression on human culture, whether it is through the mass extinction of major portions of the world's population or encouraging people to think more deeply about existential issues.

Here are the most significant pandemics that affected human history.

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