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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Tumultuous times for transportation industry insurers

The TT does not stand for troubled times, although the TT Club has seen plenty.

The TT stands for Through Transport, referring to the insurer’s customers in shipping, freight forwarding and logistics. The TT Club says it insures 80% of all maritime containers and has an insurable interest in more than 45% of the world’s top 100 ports. 

Founded in 1968, the TT Club, with a U.S. office in New Jersey and locations in London, Hong Kong and Sydney, has served clients through the severe acute...

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101 Year Old Woman Born During the Spanish Flu Survives COVID19!

After beating coronavirus at 101 years old, Friedman started looking for some yarn so she could knit.

In an unprecedented turn of events, a 101-year-old woman has recovered from the coronavirus. She has defeated 2 pandemics now – the spanish flu of 1918 and the COVID19, making it an interesting case for immunity, reports Mallory Hughes for CNN.

A Centurion Battling Diseases

Angelina Friedman survived cancer, miscarriages, internal bleeding, sepsis and now not one, but two pandemics. More than 100 years after living through the 1918 influenza pandemic, the 101-year-old woman just beat coronavirus.

A...

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How & When Will the COVID19 Pandemic End?

  • How the coronavirus pandemic will end depends on our collective effort in developing a mixture of strategies that we have learned from past pandemics.
  • 3 epidemics from the past hold the lessons which will see us through this pandemic.
  • The Spanish flu of 1918 shows how natural immunity will develop and we have to live with the disease for certain years.
  • The 2003 SARS pandemic shows the effectiveness of  containment and social distancing
  • The more recent swine flu epidemic shows how vaccines &...

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Spanish Flu 1918 Devastated Alaska, Natives Not Taking Any Chances With COVID-19

A sign at the Unalakleet, Alaska, checkpoint directs non-essential people to stay away because of the coronavirus pandemic, March 15, 2020, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP)
  • Alaskan natives were devasted by the Spanish flu.
  • The two-year Spanish flu epidemic that wiped out half the population of some villages.
  • It spread via mail carrier and traders to remote villages.
  • 200 residents of Wales, Alaska, were buried after being killed in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.
  • The 200-person village of Grayling on the Yukon River has banned all visitors.
  • It mandated that anyone who leaves during the outbreak is quarantined for 30 days.
  • Alaska and Hawaii both ordered a 14-day...

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