“IF MEN COULD LEARN FROM HISTORY, WHAT LESSONS IT MIGHT TEACH US!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834
The World
seems to be so disgusted, outraged, and surprised at this Coronavirus, however, diseases, epidemics, pandemics, and plaques have been around for centuries, and shall keep sneaking up all over the world for centuries to come.
Below is a list of plaques that occurred over the last 6-7 Centuries, and besides these outbreaks listed below, between 1996 and 2019 many more different outbreaks occurred allover the world, too many to list here; among them Cholera, Ebola, Typhoid Fever, Yellow Fever, Malaria.
The list below goes as far back as I was able to verify,
China 1333 Devasting Plaque
1347-1351 Great Plaque – Black Death -1/3 of Europe dead, millions of Middle East, Asia
Europe 1361Plaque
Europe 1369 Plaque
Europe 1374-1375 Plaque
Europe 1390 Plaque
Europe 1563 Plaque – London alone 20,000 dead
Canada 1646 Smallpox
England 1665 Black death – Bubonic Plaque
England 1800s Cholrea – 4 x during the century
Russia 1908 Cholera
World 1918 Spanish Flu
England 1926 Influenza
Canada 1953 Polio Epidemic
England 2001 Foot-and-Mouth disease
USA 2001 Anthrax
Canada-USA 2002 West Nile Virus
China 2004 Sars
Europe 2009-2010 Pandemic H1N1
South America 2015 Zirka Virus
World 2020 Coronavirus
Here is a link to the WHO website, to see all
outbreaks since 1996.
