7 Worst Pandemics In History
Disease Highlights
- caused by one of 2 viruses, V-major (deadlier) and V-minor (milder) -highly contagious -unique to humans -has been eradicated
Historical Facts
-Europeans and Africans brought the disease over to the Americas (spread like wild fire)
Historical Facts
-named after a Greek word meaning smoky or lazy, which described the state of your mind if you had typhus
Disease Highlights
-one of several diseases caused by louse-borne bacteria
Disease Highlights
-one of the most common infectious diseases -transmitted from female mosquitoes
Disease Highlights
-one of the most deadly in human history -most people died after being infected for 4 to 7 days
Disease Highlights
-one of the most destructive epidemics recorded in history - it is the most devastating in Africa (64% of all people with HIV are in Africa, more than 77% of all the women in Africa have HIV)
Historical Facts
-started in India (there was a festival and the people brought back the disease to their homes when it was finished) -spread through contaminated water and feces -by 1827 it had become the most feared disease of the century
Disease Highlights
-the worlds first global pandemic -started the need for plumbing -began the history of plumbing
Disease Highlights
-there is no cure -starts off like the typical flu
Historical Facts
-thought to have originated from the apes in Africa
Mortality Rate
10-40% of those infected
People Killed
100+ thousands
Date
1340-1771
Date
1600 to today
Date
1817 to today
Date
1918 to 1919
Date
1981 to today
People Killed
2 million every year
People Killed
25 million people
People Killed
300 million
Dates
430 BC to 1979
Dates
430BC to today
People Killed
50 to 100 million
People Killed
75 million
People Killed
Millions
Mortality Rate
V-major: 30-35% V-minor: 1%
Location
World wide
Location
Worldwide
Location
Worldwide (killed 1/3 to 2/3 of Europe's population)
Pandemic
an epidemic of an infectious disease that spreads through populations across a region, continent or even world wide
Location
tropical and subtropical regions (parts of the Americas, Asia and Africa)