The FIVE “ Greatest ” PANDEMIC of the WORLD and How it was done away with

None had ever imagined that a serious infectious disease by the name of “ CORONA ” would be manufactured in the lab of China and by a silly mistake it would be transmitted to the world

This infectious disease has completely swept away the economy of the world and everything is in shambles. The tourism and it’s earning has completely ravaged the economy of those countries which survived and thrived on the money generated by the tourism.

Human race have existed to exist by improving their health and getting all the benefits of the health engineering and more and more of inventions that was related to the medicines only added to its age but more and more people living and possessing the GREED to become the STRONGEST and the SUPER POWER of them all always have brought in disaster to the world and of late China stands head and shoulder above everybody in the world in this matter.

From raging the war which now is no more an option to raging the war courtesy the bacteria’s and the elements of virus has become the fashion of the time and more the countries are prosperous and well off to conduct more and more on the national research, we see more and more KILLERS coming out of the labs and one of them is the CORONA VIRUS

It is not that for the first time that the world has seen the most destructive element that has comes to rock the world through it’s most destructive disease. It had happened before as well and the world had to suffer. Maybe we were not present at the earth during that time but the world had to encounter the same There were many and most destructive of that time. The world faced it to do away with that. This is now the most destructive and the world will do away with that too. After all- THIS TO WILL PASS is the adage and it always has been whenever there was any .

Let us discuss them in detail - ::

As human civilizations flourished, so did infectious disease. People have a habit to live with each other, people have a habit to live close to each other and people did possess a habit to live with the faunas and the floras, a  large numbers of people living in close proximity to each other and to animals, often with poor sanitation and nutrition, provided fertile breeding grounds for disease. And new overseas trading routes spread the novel infections far and wide, creating the first global pandemics.

Here’s how five of the world’s worst pandemics started  finally ended

1. Plague of Justinian—No One Left to Die

Three of the deadliest pandemics in recorded history were caused by a single bacterium,  “ Yersinia Pestis ” , a fatal infection otherwise known as the plague.

The Plague of Justinian arrived in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in 541 CE.  It was caused by the rats it is believed and the rats were responsible to export and transship the disease here and there . It was carried over the Mediterranean Sea from Egypt, a recently conquered land paying tribute to Emperor Justinian in grain. Plague-ridden fleas hitched a ride on the black rats that snacked on the grain.

The plague decimated Constantinople and spread like wildfire across Europe, Asia, North Africa and Arabia killing an estimated 30 to 50 million people, perhaps half of the world’s population.

“People had no real understanding of how to fight it other than trying to avoid sick people,” says Thomas Mockaitis, a history professor at DePaul University. “As to how the plague ended, the best guess is that the majority of people in a pandemic somehow survive, and those who survive have immunity.”

2. Black Death—The Invention of Quarantine

 Once the plague was over between the 550 CE to the 650 CE people all over the world had sighed a GREAT relief. They felt that the WORST was all over. However the WORLD IS STILL TO COME as they say and it came. It occurred and again in an devastating and in a destructive manner

The plague never really went away, and when it returned 800 years later, it killed with reckless abandon. The Black Death, which hit Europe in 1347, claimed an astonishing 200 million lives in just four years.

As for how to stop the disease, people still had no scientific understanding of contagion, says Mockaitis, but they knew that it had something to do with proximity. That’s why forward-thinking officials in Venetian-controlled port city of Ragusa decided to keep newly arrived sailors in isolation until they could prove they weren’t sick.

At first, sailors were held on their ships for 30 days, which became known in Venetian law as a trentino. As time went on, the Venetians increased the forced isolation to 40 days or a quarantino, the origin of the word quarantine and the  “ start ” of its practice in the Western world.

3) . The Great Plague of London—Sealing Up the Sick

It is said and it is a historical fact that- SUN NEVER WAS ABLE TO SET AT GREAT BRITAIN AND BRITAIN HAD THE POEM WHICH WAS TRANSLATED INTO A SONG. That was-::

 

RULE BRITANNIA, RULE THE WORLD

 

A disease by the name of PLAGUE which had killed about sixty percent of the world population whenever it erupted killed almost more than half the population of Britain whenever it erupted at Britain and it erupted for 40 different occasion at Britain in the 300 years of her age

 

London never really caught a break after the Black Death. The plague resurfaced roughly every 20 years from 1348 to 1665—40 outbreaks in 300 years. And with each new plague epidemic, 20 percent of the men, women and children living in the British capital were killed.

By the early 1500s, England imposed the first laws to separate and isolate the sick. Homes stricken by plague were marked with a bale of hay strung to a pole outside. If you had infected family members, you had to carry a white pole when you went out in public. Cats and dogs were believed to carry the disease, so there was a wholesale massacre of hundreds of thousands of animals.

The Great Plague of 1665 was the last and one of the worst of the centuries-long outbreaks, killing 100,000 Londoners in just seven months. All public entertainment was banned and victims were forcibly shut into their homes to prevent the spread of the disease. Red crosses were painted on their doors along with a plea for forgiveness: “Lord have mercy upon us.”

As cruel as it was to shut up the sick in their homes and bury the dead in mass graves, it may have been the only way to bring the last great plague outbreak to an end.

 

4. Smallpox—A European Disease Ravages the New World

Went the plagues and people sighed some relief hoping that the worst was gone and gone for ever. But came the epidemic once again.

Smallpox was endemic to Europe, Asia and Arabia for centuries, a persistent menace that killed three out of ten people it infected and left the rest with pockmarked scars. But the death rate in the Old World paled in comparison to the devastation wrought on native populations in the New World when the smallpox virus arrived in the 15th century with the first European explorers.

The indigenous peoples of modern-day Mexico and the United States had zero natural immunity to smallpox and the virus cut them down by the tens of millions.

“There hasn’t been a kill off in human history to match what happened in the Americas—90 to 95 percent of the indigenous population wiped out over a century,” says Mockaitis. “Mexico goes from 11 million people pre-conquest to one million.”

Centuries later, smallpox became the first virus epidemic to be ended by a vaccine. In the late 18th-century, a British doctor named Edward Jenner discovered that milkmaids infected with a milder virus called cowpox seemed immune to smallpox. Jenner famously inoculated his gardener’s 9-year-old son with cowpox and then exposed him to the smallpox virus with no ill effect.

“[T]he annihilation of the smallpox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of this practice,” wrote Jenner in 1801.

And he was right. It took nearly two more centuries, but in 1980 the World Health Organization announced that smallpox had been completely eradicated from the face of the Earth.

5. Cholera—A Victory for Public Health Research

Great Britain it had been which gave the birth to many an infectious disease of the worst and the heinous nature . And when everybody were sure enough that the world would never see the world-killing-infectious disease again, it was England which came to the forefront and to the fore again

This time it brought CHOLERA and the entire Europe and part of Asia especially India were the one’s to bear the brunt of the same .More and more the ships came from England to India more and more the people here went on falling prey to this heinous disease

 

In the early- to mid-19th century, cholera tore through England, killing tens of thousands. The prevailing scientific theory of the day said that the disease was spread by foul air known as a “miasma.”

But a British doctor named John Snow suspected that the mysterious disease, which killed its victims within days of the first symptoms, lurked in London’s drinking water.

Snow acted like a scientific Sherlock Holmes, investigating hospital records and morgue reports to track the precise locations of deadly outbreaks. He created a geographic chart of cholera deaths over a 10-day period and found a cluster of 500 fatal infections surrounding the Broad Street pump, a popular city well for drinking water.

“As soon as I became acquainted with the situation and extent of this irruption (sic) of cholera, I suspected some contamination of the water of the much-frequented street-pump in Broad Street,” wrote Snow.

With dogged effort, Snow convinced local officials to remove the pump handle on the Broad Street drinking well, rendering it unusable, and like magic the infections dried up. Snow’s work didn’t cure cholera overnight, but it eventually led to a global effort to improve urban sanitation and protect drinking water from contamination.

While cholera has largely been eradicated in developed countries, it’s still a persistent killer in third-world countries lacking adequate sewage treatment and access to clean drinking water. 

Every disease that rocked and shocked the world and that took away so much of the precious life was done away with . Now the world is full of RESEARCH and the LABS which falls very quickly to do away with the epidemics in a swashbuckling and a manner that could be termed as swift – and THIS TOO WILL BE DEALT WITH.

THIS TOO WILL PASS

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee