Newsweek - USA (2020-03-20)

The number of

people quarantined

on the Diamond Prin-

cess cruise ship after

a case of the novel

coronavirus was

detected onboard.

Of these, 705 have

since contracted

the disease.

Major Pandemics

BLACK DEATH

1346–1353

DEATHS: 25—50

MILLION

(30-60% OF EUROPE’S

POPULATION)

MORTALITY RATE: 80%

0 B.C. Ơ The earliest

recorded pandemic. An

outbreak—likely typhoid

fever—started near Ethiopia

and spread through

Libya, Egypt and Greece,

killing up to a third of the

population of Athens and

contributing to their losing

the Peloponnesian War.

The number of
infectious dis-
eases that have
been eradicat-
ed: smallpox
and rinderpest

HIV/AIDS

1981–PRESENT

DEATHS: 32 MILLION

INFECTIONS: 75

MILLION

MORTALITY

RATE: 1.7% PER

100,000 (DOWN

33% SINCE 2010)

SPANISH FLU

1918–1919

DEATHS: ~50 MILLION

(33% OF WORLD

POPULATION)

INFECTIONS: ~500

MILLION

MORTALITY

RATE: >2.5%