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Jun 15, 2023 · But on 27 January 2020 North Korea slammed shut its border in response to the pandemic, stopping not just people, but food and goods, from entering the country. Its citizens, who were already...
- The Plague, Or ‘Black Death’
- Spanish Influenza
- HIV/AIDS
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
While outbreaks of the plague (caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis) still occur in several parts of the world, there are two that are particularly infamous. The 200-year long Plague of Justinian began in 541 CE, wiping out millions in several waves across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East and crimping the expansionary aspirations of the ...
The 1918 “Spanish Flu” pandemic’s reputation as one of the deadliest in human history is due to a complex interplay between how the virus works, the immune response and the social context in which it spread. It arose in a world left vulnerable by the preceding four years of World War I. Malnutrition and overcrowding were common. Around 500 million ...
The first reported cases of HIV/AIDS in the Western world emerged in 1981. Since then, around 75 million people have become infected with HIV, and about 32 million people have died. Many readers may remember how baffling and frightening the HIV/AIDs pandemic was in the early days (and still is in many parts of the developing world). We now understa...
The current pandemic is the thirdcoronavirus outbreak in the past two decades. The first was in 2002, when SARS emerged from horseshoe bats in China and spread to at least 29 countries around the world, causing 8,098 cases and 774 deaths. SARS was finally contained in July, 2003. SARS-CoV-2, however, appears much more easily spreadthan the original...
Nov 11, 2018 · Watch full episodes of Inside North Korea's Dynasty online. Get sneak peeks and free episodes all on Nat Geo TV.
With North Korea's relations with the rest of the world at a new and unpredictable inflection point, National Geographic Documentary Films presents INSIDE NORTH KOREA'S DYNASTY, a groundbreaking four-episode documentary series that examines the extraordinary history of the world's only communist dynasty, three generations in the making.
Dec 11, 2020 · After infecting an estimated 500 million people worldwide in 1918 and 1919 (a third of the global population), the H1N1 strain that caused the Spanish flu receded into the background and stuck...
- Dave Roos
- 6 min
Apr 3, 2020 · Almost exactly 100 years ago, one-third of the world's population found itself infected in a deadly viral pandemic. It was the Spanish flu. Its death toll is unknown but is generally...
Jun 30, 2021 · To what extent do contemporary calls for economic self-sufficiency compare to the foreign economic policy fallout from the “Spanish” Flu? Did this previous pandemic similarly undermine global supply chains and exacerbate xenophobia, immigration restrictions, and trade wars?
