Justen Turner

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Mr. Starkey
Gifted English 8
5 February 2016
Infectious Diseases: Source 1

Rowe, Janet. Deadly Pandemics Through History | By Janet Rowe | Winter 2016 | University of Toronto
Magazine." Winter 2016 University of Toronto Magazine Deadly Pandemics Through History Comments.
Web. 05 Feb. 2016.

Deadly Pandemics Through History

Janet Rowe

This project involves learning about infectious diseases in human history. My goal is to accurately
estimate how likely another pandemic or epidemic would happen in the future, how soon it would come,
and what the disease would be like. I also want to inform people of ways to prevent this from happening.
I have learned about infectious diseases by taking a look at some of the most deadly diseases in history.
One example is the bubonic plague, otherwise known as the Black Death. It is considered one of the first
pure pandemics in history. From 1339-51 C.E., the Bubonic plague killed 25 million people in Europe;
about half of their entire population. The image of this disease is perhaps the most horrifying and spine
chilling pandemics in history. In learning about this, I can spotlight the imprints that infectious diseases
have left on the world.