If you belong to this generation, you might be thinking that Coronavirus is the worst pandemic the world has ever seen. However, it is not the first as the human race has seen several such pandemics in the past. The following list contains the worst pandemics in the history of mankind.
HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Among 2005 and 2012 the yearly worldwide deaths from HIV/AIDS came-down from 2.2 million to 1.6 million. Modern treatments have been formulated that make HIV more controllable. HIV/AIDS has established itself as a worldwide pandemic, killing further than 36 million people since 1981. The death toll was 36 million.
Flu pandemic
The death toll was 1 million. The flu epidemic caused by the H3N2 influenza A virus first notified the incident was on July 13th, 1968 in Hong Kong. The eruption then spread-out to the Philippines, India, Australia, Europe, and the United States within three months.
Asian Flu
The death toll was 2 million. Asian flu sprang-up in China in 1956 and lasted until 1958. It was a pandemic outbreak of influenza A of the H2N2 subtype. Asian flu traveled from the Chinese province of Guizhou to Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United States.
Sixth Cholera Pandemic
The sixth cholera Pandemic was also the root of the past American occurrence of Cholera (1910-1911). It sprang-up in India where it took over 800,000 of people’s life. It also dispersed to the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Russia. By 1923 Cholera instances had been brought down considerably.
Flu Pandemic
Recent revelation set-up the cause to be influenza A virus subtype H3N8. The 1889-1890 epidemics asserted the lives of around a million people. It was the primary true pandemic in the period of bacteriology. The first incidents were discovered in May 1889 in Bukhara, Athabasca, and Greenland.
Third Cholera pandemic
The third Cholera epidemic sprang-up in India. The third key eruption of Cholera in the 19th-century held-out from 1852-1860. The death toll was about 1 million. The nastiest year of the epidemic was in 1854 in which 23,000 people were killed in Great Britain.
