Epidemic catastrophes

Abstract

Within the great dramas of the human species are two tragic pandemics coated piping for their unfortunate consequences. First is the most destructive pandemic in history of Europe: bubonic-plague or "Black Death'', as it is also called, which struck the Old Continent between 1348 and 1361 and was not eliminated until a 300 years after. Second is the deadliest epidemic in recent centuries, the so-called "Spanish flu" that erupted in the spring of 1918, affected much of the world and led to the tomb about 40 million people.

Keywords

• epidemia
• consecuencias