Comparison of COVID-19 with Different Pandemic in History
Author(s): Shivani Mittal*
Abstract
All around the course of history, disease outbreaks have devasted humanity and at times, signalling the end of entire civilizations. These diseases spreading across the borders of worldwide are term as a pandemic. At present; the world is suffering from COVID-19 pandemic. History shows that many such pandemics have occurred earlier also. Some of them are the plague of Justinian, bubonic plague, Spanish flu SARS, HIV/AIDS, and Swine flu. The global impact of these pandemics was uncertain. The spread of diseases was due to different factors which led to a high mortality rate.