9. The Hong Kong Flu
Another Asian Flu, this time originating in Hong Kong. The first case was reported on the 13th of July 1968. It took only 17 days before outbreaks of this H3N2 strain of the Influenza A virus, a genetic offshoot of the H2N2 subtype, were reported in Singapore and Vietnam, and within three months it had spread to The Philippines, India, Australia, Europe, and the United States.
It resulted in the deaths of more than a million people, including 500,000 residents of Hong Kong, approximately 15% of its population at the time.
10. HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Since its first identification in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, HIV/AIDS has truly become a global pandemic, claiming the lives of more than 36 million people since 1981. Striking hardest in Sub-Saharan Africa where it has infected 5% of the population, approximately 21 million people.
With new treatments and greater awareness, many of the deaths have been avoided, dropping globally from 2.2 million to 1.6 million between 2005 and 2012. Currently, there are between 31 and 35 million people living with HIV across the world.
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It amazes me that the MSM makes such a political thing of the virus of today, COVID-19. the other pandemics from the past make it look insignificant in comparison. It makes me wonder if it is just another point used to create problems in the US election for 2020. I read an article that said that 200,000 people have died, but only 6% were actually from the virus. Others were from other aliments like heart trouble, auto wrecks, old age, things like that. I would like to know if people were paid to write these deaths off and attribute them to the virus.
I agree with you! The media only spreads the news the way they want to to sell newspapers and I believe many of them have no knowledge of past pabdemics! The election has a lot I do with bad reporting and it’s a shame many people fall for their lies which are not backed by true facts! I only pray that when this election is over there will be a more peaceful America so ‘re government can get back to doing what they were elected to do and back the President in his office!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏