History of Pandemics PAPERSPAST site
Paperspast website.
Pandemic.
29 July 1920 King Country Chronicle 'IN THE EARLY DAYS'.
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Pandemic is a universal epidemic.
Notes on Pandemics in 1889, 1890, 1908, 1918-20, 1934, 1941 etc.
The most known is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic that spread the world.
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Year 412 BC an epidemic not unlike modern influenza.
Hippocrates described authentic records of an illness in AD 1173 spread to England, Germany and Italy. It existed for 50 years.
In 1239 another severe epidemic occurred.
In 1015 the first mention on Pandemic spread over Europe.
In 1757 Spread to USA.
Several Pandemics in the 16, 17 and 18th Centuries.
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Curious fact:- that its recorded in histories of Influenza is its occurrence at sea on ships and in fleets that had no recent communications with land.
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