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Hope and Fear: How Pandemics Changed the World

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COVID-19, which struck with such devastating impact in the early months of 2020, is just the latest in a long line of pandemics that have devastated, and in some cases, destroyed societies throughout time.

Like all pandemics, COVID-19 was sparked by human interaction with the animal world.

"Hope and Fear: How Pandemics Changed the World" looks at the circumstances that have caused these diseases – whether it be hygiene, poverty, overcrowding, urbanization, or the growth of cities – and how travel has impacted their rapid transmission – resulting in pandemics.

We explore the symptoms of these diseases and their impact — whether it was the Black Death – Bubonic Plague – which cost 100 million lives in 14th century Europe, or the Smallpox pandemic transmitted by Europeans which wiped out indigenous communities in the Americas, Pacific, and Australia between the 15th and 18th centuries.

The Great Plague of the 17th century and the Spanish Flu outbreak at the end of World War 1 were equally devastating in Europe.

Quarantine measures were first widely introduced and debated 700 years ago, and now in the 21st Century, with COVID-19, their effectiveness is being debated again.

Science, which searched for and found cures and vaccines to old diseases, is once again on a quest for a new one as the world seeks solutions to a crisis that threatens its very way of life.

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