Bad epidemics
To the big ones pandemics In recent history, the Spanish flu (1918–1920) has 25 to 50 million deaths (depending on the estimate) and the HIV virus, which has claimed more than 37 million lives worldwide since the early 1980s.
In the past 100 years, influenza pandemics in particular have caused excitement and uncertainty. Cause of the problem: influenza viruses are constantly changing, large parts of the population are therefore no longer protected despite vaccination or immunization from a previous infection. Examples of influenza pandemics include the Spanish flu already mentioned, the Asian flu, which claimed more than a million deaths in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu in 1968. The Russian flu contracted around 700,000 children and adolescents in the 1970s Victim. In 2009 around 18,000 people eventually died of the swine flu,
Medical progress
“There are currently no warning signs that there will be an influenza pandemic in our latitudes in the immediate future,” says Steininger, This scenario has been discussed for ten years. “Since the outbreak of the swine flu“Compared to other influenza pandemics such as the Spanish flu, the number of victims has declined, medicine has developed again and progress has been made in the field, so that such a horror scenario actually does not seem likely,” explains the expert on infectiology and Vaccination is also available for influenza.
Be the first pandemic of the 21st century SARS, The “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome” first appeared in late 2002 and was due to a previously unknown coronavirus. Around 700 people died in the SARS pandemic in 2002 and 2003 Mainland China and Hong Kong,
The currently in China spreading corona virus resembles the SARS virus. Corona viruses have long been considered a candidate for worldwide epidemics, because they occasionally manage to cross species boundaries. The MERS corona virus, which first appeared on the Arabian Peninsula in 2012, seems to have passed from dromedaries to humans. SARS however, may have its origin in fruit bats, which the virus again transferred to sneak cats. These are in China consumed as a delicacy. So people should have been infected.
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