Name: The Most Destructive Pandemics and Epidemics In Human History
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be spread from person to person and affects many individuals

all at the same time in a location where the disease is

A pandemic is like an epidemic, but is much larger in scale.

Pandemics can affect whole countries, continents,

at the most destructive epidemics and pandemics

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Striking at about 430 BCE during the Peloponnesian War,

in the area of 100,000 people within a three year period.

keep in mind that's a full 25% of the entire Athenian

In order to help others later identify it,

the Athenian general and historian Thucydides

He described his sickness as presenting with a high fever,

Equally disturbing is Thucydides' description

He claimed that a widespread belief the plague could not

be survived caused people to start behaving

He wrote, "The catastrophe was so overwhelming

that men, not knowing what would happen next to them,

became indifferent to every rule of religion or law."

the Antonine Plague ravaged the Roman Empire from 165 to 180

While the nature of the plague isn't known today,

it's believed that it might have been an outbreak of measles

it was likely brought to Rome by troops returning from war.

was killing a full quarter of all who became infected by it.

In the end, it is believed to have killed

And it wasn't just the poor and needy who suffered.

The list of the dead is believed to have included

From about 249 to 262 CE, the Roman Empire

was afflicted by an epidemic that eventually

came to be known as the Plague of Cyprian,

Contemporary accounts suggest the symptoms included vomiting,

bloodshot eyes, loss of hearing, blindness,

Historians don't agree on which disease was behind the plague,

but candidates include smallpox, some type of flu,

It is believed that the epidemic at its worst,

some of its most difficult years and very nearly collapsed.

The Plague of Justinian infected the Byzantine Empire

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At its peak, this plague killed roughly 10,000 people a day

and ultimately took the lives of roughly 100 million people

While many suspected the Plague of Justinian originated

in China or India and was then spread through sea trading

that caused the pandemic was never identified.

It lasted 225 years before it finally disappeared.

of human political history by preventing the Byzantine Empire

Smallpox is the name for a highly contagious disease that

Though no one knows how smallpox came into existence

or how it spread so fast, the earliest known cases

actually comes from the mummy of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses V.

And his remains show signs of the same pockmarks

that are associated with this particular disease.

killed massive numbers of people during the Middle Ages

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The Most Destructive Pandemics and Epidemics In Human History

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