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The History of Pandemics

Claire Baglole, Rowan Parkinson & Victoria Puchko

With the number of confirmed cases now in the millions and the tally of deaths in six-digit figures, the COVID-19 pandemic is fast becoming one of the most serious global outbreaks of our time. But as history reminds us, this is neither our first nor our most deadly encounter with an infectious disease.