Rare Facts About The Most Fatal Pandemics and Epidemics In Human History - Part 1
An epidemic is a disease that can be spread from person to person and affects many individuals all at the same time in a location where the disease is not permanently prevalent.A pandemic is like an epidemic,but is much larger in scale.Pandemics can affect whole countries, continents,and sometimes even the entire world.Today, we're going to take a look at the most destructive epidemics and pandemics in human history. 1) The Fatal Plague Of Athens - Striking at about 430 BCE during the Peloponnesian War,the Plague of Athens took out somewhere in the area of 100,000 people within a three year period.If that doesn't sound too impressive,keep in mind that's a full 25% of the entire Athenian population of the day.In order to help others later identify it,the Athenian general and historian Thucydides recorded his own eyewitness account of the plague and its symptoms.He described his sickness as presenting with a high fever,diarrhea, and a pustular rash.Equally disturbing is Thu...
