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Long before COVID: The deadliest pandemics in history
From the Black Death to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Disease has plagued humanity since the dawn of time. Luckily, medicine has evolved and continues to do so, and diseases that were once fatal are now treatable and even preventable. But now and then an outbreak happens, and, as history tells us, these can be truly devastating.
In this gallery, we look back on the worst pandemics throughout history. Click on.
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