History Of Worst Pandemics

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 What is Pandemic? 


   Pandemic is said to be a sudden outbreak of new disease that infects humans on a large scale.  Pandemic is often attributed to the sudden outbreak of an infection that is communicable and transmitted to other humans worldwide in a matter of time. The world has seen many pandemics in history each claiming life of 20 million people on average. These pandemics leave the worst impacts on the economy and society. 
      According to WHO, " A pandemic is a type of epidemic disease outbreak that results in the death of millions of people. This disease should be communicable and contagious (transmitting from one person to another). Non-communicable and non-contagious diseases are not included in pandemics". For example, Cancer is the largest cause of human deaths in the world but, it's not called a pandemic. Cancer is non-contagious and non-communicable, so it's not a pandemic

 History of Pandemics: 

 The world has faced many pandemics in history but we have a limited record for the past pandemics. Today we have advanced instruments and laboratories to diagnose these diseases. So, it's believed that many pandemics were not addressed due to a lack of advancement in the medical field. Some historians believe that Alexander the Great, when he tried to conquer India, he fell ill and died there. The reason for his death was an unknown seasonal fever and flu. So, you can imagine how old is the history of pandemics and epidemics. 

Impacts of Pandemics: 

Pandemics leave very bad impacts on human societies. Pandemics dismantle human gatherings and congregation rituals. Pandemics leave people restricted to their houses. Many people starve to death because of food supply closure. restrictions gatherings and social distancing have changed the way people met. Many people have turned psychic due to the overwhelming fear of contagious disease.  
Pandemics leave great consequences for the economy of a region/country. An estimated pandemic costs about 578 billion dollars to one country's economy. Many industries have turned off and production is at halt recently due to coronavirus pandemic. So, you can estimate how much worse are the consequences of a pandemic.

We will discuss the history of all notable pandemics in our next blog post. Stay tuned and subscribe to your email. We want you to share our blog posts. 
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