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Another pandemic that i did some research on was the bubonic plague or the "Black Plague".The black plague is the most famous and deadly plague to hit humanity because it killed between 75- 125 million people which at the time brought down the human population almost 40 percent. Today if a plague hit that hard there would only be 4 billion people left in the world which means we would lose 4 billion people. It came from Central or east asia it was spread througbh the silk road which caused ot to spread very rapidly through Europe and it killed 30-60% of Europe's population due to the fact that medicine wasn't thriving and people didn't have the knowledge of how things were spread. Hygiene wasnt a big thing back in the 1300s so this caused the plague to thrive everywhere because being clean and having decent hygiene wasnt taught. The plague has been on and off again for centuries but until the 20th century, it wasn't completely stopped. The climate cooled because of the forests thriving again, today we are seeing a similar effect with the climate because people are forced to stay inside causing fossil fuel use to lower which is lowering the carbon footprint for this year. People learned alot from the plague especially the effects of having good hygiene and the medical field was forced to advance very quickly which helped the world evolve more.
I like your analysis of the bubonic plague. I wrote mine about HIV and AIDS. It a huge pandemic from 2005 to 2012. It was first identified in Democratic republic of Congo in 1976. It developed from a chimpanzee virus. It has been proven to be a global pandemic that killed more than 36 million people since 1981.
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