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Before the current crisis, pandemics have cropped up again and again, sometimes decimating entire populations.
All this week, France 24 looks back at pandemics in history.
The plague of Athens, the first ever recorded pandemic.
SOT “A city, a country gripped by a pandemic is devoid of all options: the epidemic affects the entire human race.”
The Black Death which swept across Western Europe.
Cholera, which ravaged Asia before invading first Russia, then Europe.
Spanish flu, the scourge whose origins are still unclear today.
SOT “The flu spread rapidly through the trenches, and the second wave was even deadlier than the first.”
And finally AIDS, the catastrophe of which the world has yet to rid itself.
These diseases, inexplicable in their time, can now be analysed by scientists and treated with medicine.
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