Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.
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Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
We are a plague on the Earth.
We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.
Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.