This is exactly like a world ward 3 where the only difference is that the whole world is on one side and on the other side there is an enemy who cannot be seen yet has the strength to take lives of millions of people.ĭr. Undoubtedly, from day one the virus has been damaging our health as well as wealth and well-being. The Covid-19 is regarded as the First Modern Pandemic which paved its way in our world in the later part of year 2019. In the mid of 1918, when there were no anti-biotics available, the disease was spreading like a wildfire in all parts of the world infecting almost everyone.Īnd as we speak about the Spanish Flu, yet the humanity has been once again tested when today we are fighting against the deadliest pandemic caused by Covid-19. No doubt that the war played a role in the spread of the disease. They didn’t even rejoiced the end of brutal World War 1 when they were again challenged by the law of nature. People were waiting for their loved ones to come back to their homes. It was the time when the World War 1 was about to end. It is said that an average of upto 3 to 6% of the world’s population was vanished due to this pandemic. It is said that the World War 1 did not take as many lives as this pandemic has taken wherein almost 50 million people of the entire world’s population lost their lives. The history repeated itself when, in the year 1918-19, the mankind was struck with yet another pandemic notoriously known as “Great Influenza” (also known as Spanish Flu). It took the lives of roughly over 75 to 200 million people and the highly affected areas of the disease were Eurasia, North Africa and later in Europe. Similarly, in the fourteenth century as well, the world’s population was once again faced with yet another deadly pandemic called “Black Death” which was given the title of “deadliest pandemic” ever recorded in the history of mankind. The Romans named the plague Justinian which is estimated to take lives of more than 25 to 100 million people and is known to be the greatest pandemic. For example we are all aware of the Plague of Justinian which took place in between 541-542 A.D., which is known to be the first pandemic ever being faced by the mankind wherein the most affected were the Mediterranean Basin, Europe and the Empires of Sasanian and Romans. If we look in the past, we will see that there were many infectious diseases which had severely damaged the world’s population. No matter how well-informed we are, how well-equipped we are in terms of science and technology, yet many highly infectious diseases have made their way into the world which include also Ebola fever and HIV/AIDS which, till to date, remain incurable and are posing a grave threat to the existence of mankind. The only thing is that the world has become advanced and with the help of science, technology and research, and due to this we are able to learn a great deal about existing as well as new infectious diseases.
With the birth of mankind, the existence of infectious diseases also came into being. The existence of infectious diseases is not something new. Ironically, infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, which are otherwise preventable, are once again undermining the world’s population by making a comeback which is even more severe than ever before. We cannot and should not underestimate the danger these infectious diseases can cause therefore every country and nation cannot ignore the reality that diseases and humanity will have to live together. The humanity is living within the confines and barriers created by these infectious diseases as a result of which no country and no part of the world is safe.
The report further suggests that in the past decade 30 new infectious diseases have emerged on the horizon which are threatening lives and health of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. As a matter of fact, majority of people who are being infected by these infectious diseases can be cured for a cost less than US Dollar 1 per head, and though many of these infectious diseases can be prevented, however, still the number of casualties are very alarming. According to a report published by World Health Organization ( WHO) everyday nearly over fifty thousand people, including men, women and children, are dying because of various infectious diseases.
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