(1) ATHENS TYPHOID OF 430 BC.
This is the earliest recorded Pandemic. As much as one-thirds of the world's population died.
The symptoms included fever, thirst, bloody throat and tongue, red skin and lesions. The disease was suspected to have been a form of typhoid fever.

(2) ANTONINE PANDEMIC OF 165 AD:
Symptoms included fever, sore throat, diarrhea and, if the patient lived long enough, pus-filled sores. This plague continued until about 180 A.D.
It claimed about 5 million lives and swept over Asia, Greece, Egypt and Italy.

(3) CYPRIAN PLAGUE OF 250 AD.
Named after the first known victim, the Christian bishop of Carthage, the pandemic entailed diarrhea, vomiting, throat ulcers, fever and gangrenous hands and feet.
Possibly starting in Ethiopia, it passed through Northern Africa, into Rome, then onto Egypt and Britain. Over 25 million deaths was recorded.

(4) JUSTINIAN PLAGUE OF 541 AD:
First appearing in Egypt, the Justinian pandemic spread through Palestine and the Byzantine Empire, and then throughout the Mediterranean.
It eventually killed about 50 million people, (26 percent of the world population). It is believed to be the first significant appearance of the bubonic plague, which features enlarged lymphatic gland and is carried by rats and spread by fleas.

(5) LEPROSY OF 11th CENTURY:
The leprosy grew into a pandemic in Europe in the Middle Ages, resulting in the building of numerous leprosy-focused hospitals to accommodate the vast number of victims.
A slow-developing bacterial disease that causes sores and deformities, leprosy was believed to be a punishment from God that ran in families. This belief led to moral judgments and ostracization of victims. Now known as Hansen’s disease, it was treated with antibiotics.

(6) BLACK-DEATH PLAGUE
I'll rather call this one, the mother of all pandemics. Between 1346-1353, the worst pandemic occurred globally. A pandemic worst than Covid-19, HIV, Bird Flu and Typhoid, put together. It was a 7 years long Pandemic.
It was caused by bubonic plague transmitted by fleas and rodents.
By that time, the world's population was 600 million, then 200 million died.
If the world was to end with a disease, it would have ended that time, not with COVID 19.
It is said that during that plague, the living spent most of their time burrying the dead in mass graves and yet others were left unburied.
It was a real pandemic that shook the world and gave scientist sleepless night. England and France were so incapacitated by the plague that the countries called a truce to their war. The British feudal system collapsed when the plague changed economic circumstances and demographics.

(7) THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE of 1548 claimed about 55,000 lives

( THE LONDON PLAGUE of 1665 claimed 20% of the population of London.

(9) FIRST CHOLERA PANDEMIC OF 1817
The first of seven cholera pandemics over the next 150 years. This wave of the small intestine infection originated in Russia, where one million people died. Spreading through feces-infected water and food, the bacterium was passed along to British soldiers who brought it to India where millions more died. The vaccine was discovered in 1885 when the third plague occurred.

(10) FIJI MEASLES PANDEMIC OF 1875.
This pandemic started from Fiji, British Empire, Australia and went global.
Spreading quickly, the island was littered with corpses that were scavenged by wild animals, and entire villages died and were burned down, sometimes with the sick trapped inside the fires. One-third of Fiji’s population, a total of 40,000 people, died.

(11) RUSSIAN FLU OF 1889
The first significant flu pandemic started in Siberia and Kazakhstan, traveled to Moscow, and made its way into Finland and then Poland, where it moved into the rest of Europe. By the following year, it had crossed the ocean into North America and Africa. By the end of 1890, 360,000 had died.

(12) SPANISH FLU OF 1918
The avian-borne flu that resulted in 50 million deaths worldwide, was first observed in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world. At the time, there were no effective drugs or vaccines to treat this killer flu strain. Wire service reports of a flu outbreak in Madrid in the spring of 1918 led to the pandemic being called the “Spanish flu.”
By October, hundreds of thousands of Americans died and body storage scarcity hit crisis level. But the flu threat disappeared in the summer of 1919 when most of the infected had either developed immunities or died.

(13) ASIAN FLU OF 1957
Starting in Hong Kong and spreading throughout China and then into the United States, the Asian flu became widespread in England where, over six months, 14,000 people died. A second wave followed in early 1958, causing an estimated total of about 1.1 million deaths globally, with 116,000 deaths in the United States alone. A vaccine was developed, effectively containing the pandemic.

(14) HIV/AIDS OF 1981:
First identified in 1981, AIDS destroys a person’s immune system, resulting in eventual death by diseases that the body would usually fight off. Those infected by the HIV virus encounter fever, headache, and enlarged lymph nodes upon infection. When symptoms subside, carriers become highly infectious through blood and genital fluid, and the disease destroys t-cells.
AIDS was first observed in American gay communities but is believed to have developed from a chimpanzee virus from West Africa in the 1920s. The disease, which spreads through certain body fluids, moved to Haiti in the 1960s, and then New York and San Francisco in the 1970s.
Treatments have been developed to slow the progress of the disease, but 35 million people worldwide have died of AIDS since its discovery, and a cure is yet to be found.

(15) SARS OF 2003.:
First identified in 2003 after several months of cases, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is believed to have possibly started with bats, spread to cats and then to humans in China, followed by 26 other countries, infecting 8,096 people, with 774 deaths.
SARS is characterized by respiratory problems, dry cough, fever and head and body aches and is spread through respiratory droplets from coughs and sneezes.
Quarantine efforts proved effective and by July, the virus was contained and hasn’t reappeared since. China was criticized for trying to suppress information about the virus at the beginning of the outbreak.
SARS was seen by global health professionals as a wake-up call to improve outbreak responses, and lessons from the pandemic were used to keep diseases like H1N1, Ebola and Zika under control..

By today, Covid-19 death is not close to half a million.
We shall remain alive by the grace of God.
The world is not ending.
So, don't panic, if the God wants to end the world, He would've done it during the bigger pandemics.

#Stay_hopeful
#Stay_Positive
#Stay_Home
#Stay_Safe

#Be_prayerful_and_stay_righteous

Nice info

Asia has mostly been the epicentre of this pandemics since begining of the 21st century... I wonder why