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Pandemics Throughout the History
As we move amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we have witnessed tremendous distress, death, and turmoil of everyday life for more than one year now. However, they are not modern phenomena; deadly pandemics have happened throughout recorded history. Pandemics such as the plague,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8525686/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34692344 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18136 |
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author | Sampath, Shrikanth Khedr, Anwar Qamar, Shahraz Tekin, Aysun Singh, Romil Green, Ronya Kashyap, Rahul |
author_facet | Sampath, Shrikanth Khedr, Anwar Qamar, Shahraz Tekin, Aysun Singh, Romil Green, Ronya Kashyap, Rahul |
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description | As we move amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we have witnessed tremendous distress, death, and turmoil of everyday life for more than one year now. However, they are not modern phenomena; deadly pandemics have happened throughout recorded history. Pandemics such as the plague, Spanish Flu, HIV, and Ebola caused deaths, destruction of political regimes, as well as financial and psychosocial burdens. However, they sometimes resulted in scientific discoveries. Understanding the mechanism of the emergence of these pandemics is crucial to control any spreading pandemic and prevent the emergence of a potential new one. Public health agencies need to work on improving the countries’ pandemic preparedness to prevent any future pandemics. The review article aims to shed light on some of the deadliest pandemics throughout history, information of critical importance for clinicians and researchers. |
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spelling | pubmed-85256862021-10-22 Pandemics Throughout the History Sampath, Shrikanth Khedr, Anwar Qamar, Shahraz Tekin, Aysun Singh, Romil Green, Ronya Kashyap, Rahul Cureus Internal Medicine As we move amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we have witnessed tremendous distress, death, and turmoil of everyday life for more than one year now. However, they are not modern phenomena; deadly pandemics have happened throughout recorded history. Pandemics such as the plague, Spanish Flu, HIV, and Ebola caused deaths, destruction of political regimes, as well as financial and psychosocial burdens. However, they sometimes resulted in scientific discoveries. Understanding the mechanism of the emergence of these pandemics is crucial to control any spreading pandemic and prevent the emergence of a potential new one. Public health agencies need to work on improving the countries’ pandemic preparedness to prevent any future pandemics. The review article aims to shed light on some of the deadliest pandemics throughout history, information of critical importance for clinicians and researchers. Cureus 2021-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8525686/ /pubmed/34692344 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18136 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sampath et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Sampath, Shrikanth Khedr, Anwar Qamar, Shahraz Tekin, Aysun Singh, Romil Green, Ronya Kashyap, Rahul Pandemics Throughout the History |
title | Pandemics Throughout the History |
title_full | Pandemics Throughout the History |
title_fullStr | Pandemics Throughout the History |
title_full_unstemmed | Pandemics Throughout the History |
title_short | Pandemics Throughout the History |
title_sort | pandemics throughout the history |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8525686/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34692344 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18136 |
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