Tracing the End of Pandemics Through Generations

Illustration of the bacteria yersinia pestis, which lives on fleas that live on rats

10 months into the pandemic, there’s no reprieve from the disease and everyone is looking for an end date. Amidst this, the BBC underlines how pandemics end with animated visual stories from the past, from the survivors of previous pandemics. Let’s take a look at how pandemics end.

We are in the grip of a pandemic like none other in living memory. While people are pinning their hopes on a vaccine to wipe it out, the fact is most of the infections faced by our ancestors are still with us.

This is...

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How A Ship & Handful Shipowners Can Spread Diseases!

As the Coronavirus grips the world is scare, here’s a story from the Bubonic Plague pandemic back in 1720 as reported by the Indo New York

  • In the early months of summer, that is in April 5, the bubonic plague struck for the first time onboard a ship
  • Because only a handful of ship-owners refuses to lose a cargo of precious fabrics, 100 000 Marseille and Provence are washed out by the bubonic plague.
  • More than 40000 deaths in the phocean city. One-third of the inhabitants of the time.
  • The tragedy...

https://mfame.guru/how-a-ship-handful-shipowners-spread-diseases/

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