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2019 [b] –present [10] [11] [c] Worldwide 6 Third plague pandemic: Bubonic plague 12–15 million – 1855–1960 Worldwide 7 Cocoliztli epidemic of 1545–1548: Cocoliztli, caused by an unidentified pathogen 5–15 million 27–80% of Mexican population [12] 1545–1548 Mexico 8 Antonine Plague: Smallpox or measles: 5–10 million
The 1918 influenza pandemic has been declared, according to Barry's text, as the 'deadliest plague in history'. The extensiveness of this declaration can be supported through the following statements: "the greatest medical holocaust in history" [2] and "the pandemic ranks with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics". [3]
It explores the impact of infectious diseases on human history. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of academic disciplines, Kennedy argues that pandemics have played a crucial role but overlooked role in many of the great social, political and economic transformations of the past, including the extinction of Neanderthals, the emergence of Christianity and Islam as world religions, the ...
The Black Death, caused by the Plague, caused the deaths of up to half of the population of Europe in the 14th century. The term pandemic had not been used then, but was used for later epidemics, including the 1918 H1N1 influenza A pandemic—more commonly known as the Spanish flu—which is the deadliest pandemic in history.
Plagues and Peoples is a book on epidemiological history by historian William H. McNeill published by Anchor Books in 1976. It was a critical and popular success, offering a radical new interpretation of the extraordinary impact of infectious disease on cultures as a means of enemy attack.
Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.
Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease is a non-fiction book by evolutionary biologist Paul W. Ewald. It argues that the role of pathogens has been overlooked in medicine, as a primary cause of many chronic diseases. It is his second book, following Evolution of Infectious Disease in 1994.
The Spanish Flu, the second deadliest pandemic in history after the bubonic plague, along with the aftermath of World War I and ensuing political and social chaos, made 1918 a tough time to be alive.