Social History Of Virus
Virus has an effect on how we lived on Earth. There are more than one million different types of virus on Earth that has not yet been discovered or identified. There is only about 5,000 viruses that has been discovered as of now. We are not sure how viruses originated from since the discovery. Throughout history many of species on earth has been affected by viruses since the beginning of earth. One of them humans.
Many years ago humans have died from these diseases. Virus spreads from one person to another, which drastically increases the amount of people infected in an area without quarantine. Tens and thousands of years ago, the early stages of civilization earth has been infected by viruses. There are many reasons how they would have contracted them: (1) From drinking contaminated water from a source; (2) From parasite, bugs, or other species.
There are many events to how virus has affected our society. From the early years of humans to the Middle Ages and beyond the 17th Century. At one point on Earth the whole entire human population almost got wiped out on Earth. There has been many types of epidemics and plagues that has widely destroyed most of Earth's living species. The Black Plague in Europe wiped a third of Europe and nearly 75 million of its people. The most deadliest virus in history was the Spanish Flu killing up to 50,000,000-100,000,000 people in the 20th century.
The death toll of diseases have steadily decrease over the years due to the uproar invention of vaccines in the early 20th century. The cure has helped prevent humans from getting viruses. Not all vaccines can stop an outbreak of an epidemic. The 21st century vaccines has stopped viruses from creating a major outbreak that would plummet the entire Earth's population ever again. People have been quarantined or wearing a mask to stop spreading to others.
Now in today's society people are being checked up regularly and getting vaccines. There has been a short pause and hopefully one day we won't have to experience the closure of the people in the past. Now we have don't have to worry about HIV, AIDS, and today's viruses since there not airborne. And in the future there will be cures for all types of viruses, because of the amount of medical social workers we have today.