The history of the most famous epidemics in the world and the damage they caused

Abstract

The topic of research includes the most famous epidemics that have passed in history and the extent of their impact on human existence, and whether it still threatens the human entity, given that the Corona epidemic was the last epidemic. This historical narrative shows that the series of plagues dates back to very, very ancient times, as God Almighty mentioned in His dear book is that he tortured people with plagues and epidemics, and they never stopped throughout history. Rather, there is a great series of epidemics that passed through people from the time of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, to this day, but there are epidemics from epidemics that differ, as there are epidemics whose danger is less than others. But there are epidemics that have threatened human conscience on the face of the globe, such as the general plague or the “Black Plague” or the Spanish flu, which claimed hundreds of millions of people as victims of these epidemics, until the Corona epidemic (Covid-19) appeared in our days in China in the city of Wuhan in the year. 2019 AD, which also stopped the wheel of life and infected millions of people, and more than seven million people died in the world within two years.