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Bookmark or Share- Epidemics and pandemics prevented - World Health Organization (WHO)During the biennium 2020-2021, countries put up enormous efforts to address the unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic, with the world’s largest and fastest vaccination drive ever to rollout new COVID-19 vaccines. Despite this, 3.5 million lives were lost to the disease and vaccine hoarding and nationalism led to stark inequities.
- What were the death tolls from pandemics in history?Appendix: Major pandemics in the last millennium The Black Death. The Black Death (1346–1353 CE) – one of the earliest pandemics with a methodically estimated death toll – killed around 50–60% of Europe’s population, approximately 50 million people, in just 6 years. 3 Researchers have established that many people also died elsewhere – as large outbreaks are also recognizable in ...
- Biden administration announces new global plan to thwart future ... - NPRThe U.S. has come up with its own global strategy to thwart the next pandemic. An EMT wearing personal protective equipment prepares to unload COVID-19 transfer patients in the early days of the ...
- Pandemics That Changed History: TimelineThe Black Death haunts the world as the worst-case scenario for the speed of disease's spread. It was the second pandemic caused by the bubonic plague, and ravaged Earth’s population. Called the ...
- The worst epidemics and pandemics in history | Live ScienceHere are 21 of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history, dating from prehistoric to modern times. Related:Spanish Flu: The deadliest pandemic in history. 1. Prehistoric epidemic: Circa 3000 B ...
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