The Third Pandemic

The Third Pandemic (1855-1956)   The moniker “Third Pandemic” refers to a significant bubonic plague outbreak that started in China in the middle of the 19th century. After the Black Death in the 14th century and many resurgences in the 17th and 18th...

The Spanish Flu

The Spanish Flu (1918-1919)   The H1N1 influenza A virus was the primary cause of the unusually deadly Spanish Flu, widely known as the 1918 influenza pandemic. Between 50 and 100 million people died as a result of it, infecting an estimated one-third of the...

The Black Death

The Black Death (1346-1353)   One of the worst pandemics in human history was the Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague. According to estimates, it attacked Eurasia in the middle of the fourteenth century and wiped out between 75 and 200 million people,...