Scary statistics about Corona..the most deadly epidemic in humanity

It seems that the new Corona virus, whose death toll is close to one million, is the epidemic more deadly to humanity, after it was more deadly compared to other contemporary viruses, although its victims so far are much fewer than the victims of the Spanish flu a century ago.

And the World Health Organization warned, Friday, that it is “highly likely” that the death toll from Covid-19 will reach two million if everything necessary is not done.

The organization considered that the possibility of the outcome reaching two million is not excluded if countries and individuals do not coordinate efforts to address the crisis.

The Covid-19 epidemic has killed at least 984,068 people around the world since the World Health Organization office in China announced the emergence of the virus at the end of December, according to a toll compiled by Agence France-Presse based on official sources on Friday.

More than 32 million people around the world have been infected with the emerging coronavirus, including more than 22 million who have recovered to date.

As the pandemic continues, outcome Prepared by Agence France-Presse is only provisional, but it provides a reference point for comparing Corona with other viruses in the past and present.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 is by far the deadliest in the world Viruses XXI century.

In 2009, the H18,500NXNUMX virus, or swine flu, caused a global pandemic, killing XNUMX people, according to official figures.

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This number was later reviewed by the medical journal The Lancet, which reported between 151,700 and 575,400 deaths.

In 2002-2003, the SARS virus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which appeared in China, was the first coronavirus to cause panic in the world, but the total number of its victims did not exceed 774 deaths.

The transfer of a victim of the Spanish flu

flu epidemics

COVID-19 is often compared to the deadly seasonal flu, although the latter rarely makes headlines.

Globally, seasonal influenza kills up to 650 people annually, according to the World Health Organization.

In the twentieth century, two non-seasonal influenza pandemics, the Asian flu in 1957-1958 and the Hong Kong flu 1968-1970, killed nearly one million people each, according to a later census.

The two pandemics came in conditions different from Covid-19, that is, before globalization intensified and accelerated economic exchange and travel, and with it the acceleration of the spread of deadly viruses.

The largest epidemic disasters so far is the influenza epidemic between 1918 and 1919, also known as the Spanish flu, which killed about 50 million people, according to research published in the first decade of the millennium.

tropical epidemics

The death toll from corona far exceeds that of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, which first appeared in 1976 and the last outbreak between 2018 and 2020 killed nearly 2300 people.

In four decades, the seasonal outbreak of Ebola killed about 15 people across Africa.

The death rate from Ebola is much higher compared to Covid-19. About half of those infected with fever die, and this percentage rises to 90% in some cases.

But the risk of infection with Ebola is lower than that of other viral diseases, especially because it is not transmitted in the air, but through direct and close contact.

Dengue fever, which in turn can be fatal, has a lower outcome. This influenza-like disease, which is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito, has recorded an acceleration in infections in the past two decades, but it causes a few thousand deaths a year.

Other viral epidemics

Acquired immunodeficiency virus (AIDS) is the most common cause of death among contemporary epidemics. 33 million people worldwide have died from this disease that attacks the immune system.

However, antiretroviral drugs, if taken regularly, can effectively stop the progression of the disease and significantly reduce the risk of infection.

This treatment has contributed to reducing the number of deaths, which reached its highest level in 2004 at 1.7 million deaths, to 690 thousand deaths in 2009, according to the United Nations Program to Combat AIDS.

Also, the death toll from hepatitis B and C viruses is also high, amounting to 1.3 million deaths annually, the majority of which are in poor countries.