Words that will NEVER come out of my mouth,
– UNLESS?
I am begging, pleading and just plain doing
my humble best to explain our history?
Infographic:
The History of Pandemics, by Death Toll (visualcapitalist.com)
I will however, constantly write to you
from my memories, out from my heart, to you in one if not all of my blogs!
Today, to me history
is one of the
if not the most important subject for our
school children from diaper to death,
because there is far too much needless death around
'Mother Earth' from not learning from our mistakes of our past
and correcting them today and in our
future?
Remember; our best and only weapon in any pandemic until science is able to catch up,
is the mask with social distancing!
I Hate
History! | Shechaim's News of the Day (wordpress.com)
(CNN) - To gather or not to gather has been the question at the forefront of the minds of today's religious leaders and their church members. During the 1918 influenza pandemic that ultimately killed 50 million to 100 million people,
different answers to that same question
resulted in either collective well-being
or
widespread, devastating
loss.
CNN -
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
Pandemic
of 1918 on CNN - Bing images
The
1918 Spanish Flu Beats all Pandemics since the Black Plague | PAUL ANDREWS
(wordpress.com)
Here are some of the major pandemics that have occurred over time:
|
Name |
Time period |
Type / Pre-human host |
Death toll |
|
Antonine
Plague |
165-180 |
Believed
to be either smallpox or measles |
5M |
|
Japanese
smallpox epidemic |
735-737 |
Variola
major virus |
1M |
|
Plague
of Justinian |
541-542 |
Yersinia
pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas |
30-50M |
|
Black
Death |
1347-1351 |
Yersinia
pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas |
200M |
|
New
World Smallpox Outbreak |
1520
– onwards |
Variola
major virus |
56M |
|
Great
Plague of London |
1665 |
Yersinia
pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas |
100,000 |
|
Italian
plague |
1629-1631 |
Yersinia
pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas |
1M |
|
Cholera
Pandemics 1-6 |
1817-1923 |
V.
cholerae bacteria |
1M+ |
|
Third
Plague |
1885 |
Yersinia
pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas |
12M
(China and India) |
|
Yellow
Fever |
Late
1800s |
Virus
/ Mosquitoes |
100,000-150,000
(U.S.) |
|
Russian
Flu |
1889-1890 |
Believed
to be H2N2 (avian origin) |
1M |
|
Spanish
Flu |
1918-1919 |
H1N1
virus / Pigs |
40-50M |
|
Asian
Flu |
1957-1958 |
H2N2
virus |
1.1M |
|
Hong
Kong Flu |
1968-1970 |
H3N2
virus |
1M |
|
HIV/AIDS |
1981-present |
Virus
/ Chimpanzees |
25-35M |
|
Swine
Flu |
2009-2010 |
H1N1
virus / Pigs |
200,000 |
|
SARS |
2002-2003 |
Coronavirus
/ Bats, Civets |
770 |
|
Ebola |
2014-2016 |
Ebolavirus
/ Wild animals |
11,000 |
|
MERS |
2015-Present |
Coronavirus
/ Bats, camels |
850 |
|
COVID-19 |
2019-Present |
Coronavirus
– Unknown (possibly pangolins) |
848K
(Johns Hopkins University estimate as of 10:28am PT, Aug 31, 2020) |
Infographic:
The History of Pandemics, by Death Toll (visualcapitalist.com)
