Pandemic COVID-19 Joins History’s Pandemic Legion
ABSTRACT With great apprehension, the world is now watching the birth of a novel pandemic already causing tremendous suffering, death, and disruption of normal life. Uncertainty and dread are exacerbated by the belief that what we are experiencing is new and mysterious. However, deadly pandemics and...
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| author | David M. Morens Peter Daszak Howard Markel Jeffery K. Taubenberger |
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| description | ABSTRACT With great apprehension, the world is now watching the birth of a novel pandemic already causing tremendous suffering, death, and disruption of normal life. Uncertainty and dread are exacerbated by the belief that what we are experiencing is new and mysterious. However, deadly pandemics and disease emergences are not new phenomena: they have been challenging human existence throughout recorded history. Some have killed sizeable percentages of humanity, but humans have always searched for, and often found, ways of mitigating their deadly effects. We here review the ancient and modern histories of such diseases, discuss factors associated with their emergences, and attempt to identify lessons that will help us meet the current challenge. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9298988ef93d48b4ad9a04bd02a7f17f2022-12-21T19:26:26ZengAmerican Society for MicrobiologymBio2150-75112020-06-0111310.1128/mBio.00812-20Pandemic COVID-19 Joins History’s Pandemic LegionDavid M. Morens0Peter Daszak1Howard Markel2Jeffery K. Taubenberger3Office of the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USAEcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USACenter for the History of Medicine, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAViral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USAABSTRACT With great apprehension, the world is now watching the birth of a novel pandemic already causing tremendous suffering, death, and disruption of normal life. Uncertainty and dread are exacerbated by the belief that what we are experiencing is new and mysterious. However, deadly pandemics and disease emergences are not new phenomena: they have been challenging human existence throughout recorded history. Some have killed sizeable percentages of humanity, but humans have always searched for, and often found, ways of mitigating their deadly effects. We here review the ancient and modern histories of such diseases, discuss factors associated with their emergences, and attempt to identify lessons that will help us meet the current challenge.https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00812-20COVID-19pandemicinfluenzaplague |
| spellingShingle | David M. Morens Peter Daszak Howard Markel Jeffery K. Taubenberger Pandemic COVID-19 Joins History’s Pandemic Legion mBio COVID-19 pandemic influenza plague |
| title | Pandemic COVID-19 Joins History’s Pandemic Legion |
| title_full | Pandemic COVID-19 Joins History’s Pandemic Legion |
| title_fullStr | Pandemic COVID-19 Joins History’s Pandemic Legion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pandemic COVID-19 Joins History’s Pandemic Legion |
| title_short | Pandemic COVID-19 Joins History’s Pandemic Legion |
| title_sort | pandemic covid 19 joins history s pandemic legion |
| topic | COVID-19 pandemic influenza plague |
| url | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00812-20 |
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