CORONAVIRUS: What We Do & Don’t Know
IT One of the first major ones was the bubonic plague, which ravaged Europe, Africa, and Asia, with an estimated death toll between 75 and 200-million people. Thought to have originated in Asia, the plague most likely jumped continents via the fleas living on the rats that so frequently lived aboard merchant ships. Following that was smallpox – brought to North America from European settlers in the 1600s. It destroyed entire Native American tribes. Then came yellow fever that struck the Caribbean Islands. Five thousand people died and 17 000 fled the city. Next was scarlet fever, typhoid fever, Spanish
