Historical Overview of the Past Documented Pandemics: From Antiquity to Present

ABSTRACT

The key to understand a pandemic start with an understanding of the disease itself and the progression of the natural course of the disease. They are part of human race and even documented in all major civilization and Abrahamic religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Every pandemic has its own ratio of sternness, frequency and characteristics on different regions and various techniques to cater for. The paper is a historical overview of the past documented pandemics from Athens plague to Covid-19 (1st really global and extensively documented pandemic) of the recorded history.