✪ A new epidemic outbreak has gripped the globe: the coronavirus, which began in China, is affecting more and more countries and thousands of people lives.
To date, the death rate from Covid-19 has been 3.6 per cent of the total number of cases.
Is it possible to compare the coronavirus with the epidemics that humanity has faced over two millennia of its history?
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✪ Did you know that the first coronavirus outbreak was registered back in 2002?
Back then, the population of China was just over one billion two hundred million people. Eight thousand two hundred and seventy people were infected, of which seven hundred and fifty-five died.
Now more than forty-five thousand people from twenty-eight different countries are infected.
But that’s not the worst part. In the twentieth century, there were a lot of deadly viruses that could lead to the complete disappearance of all mankind.
In 1910, a plague epidemic hit the area of the Far East. In one year, the “black death” killed more than a hundred thousand people. The infection originated in a small animal, tarbagan marmot.
Ten years later, a cholera epidemic began in Russia. This acute intestinal infection has killed five hundred thousand people in five years.
In addition to Europe, the disease has spread to Asia. By 1920, cholera had killed one and a half million people. The largest number of cases was in India and the Philippines.
In 1968, a new unknown virus codenamed H3N appeared in Hong Kong. The first outbreak was recorded on the thirteen of July and in just a couple of months turned into a real epidemic.
Between one and four million people died from it in three years. American soldiers stationed on the island brought the virus to the United States, where three hundred and three thousand eight hundred people died in six months.
The last pandemic gripped the globe in two thousand and nine. So-called “swine flu” jumped to humans and spread all over the world. Such as the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Chile severely damaged.
Two hundred and twenty-two thousand people were infected. Nineteen hundred and six died from complications.
Recently, scientists have begun to consider HIV as the pandemic. According to data for 2020, it affects more than forty million people around the world.
At the moment, HIV remains a challenging target for a vaccine, and there is currently no licensed HIV vaccine on the market. However, a vaccine that trains the body’s immune system to destroy the viral envelope has been designed.
The vaccine is currently testing, which should end on the twentieth of December, 2022.
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