Scientists say that diseases or sicknesses that spread from animals to humans can turn very dangerous, Such as the Black Death. This originated in china in fleas that lived on rats. It was spread through the trading routes throughout Europe and Asia. People trade with china and carried the plague, and then it spread from there. After the plague killed the rats the fleas needed something else to feed on so the went to humans, and that’s where it all started.

The symptoms started like a flu and then black splotches appeared. This is where is got its name. It killed the affected in about 3-5 days from the st

The other global pandemic was the great influenza outbreak of 1918. This was also known as the “Spanish flu”. It was believed that this started in pigs and transferred to humans making it very bad.

It came around about the same time as the WWI. Surpassingly it isn't talked about a lot today or in many textbooks. When the troops were going across the ocean to other countries they spread it. It was spread by air just as the Black Death was. It came from a virus which couldn’t be seen by a microscope so there was no cure just as there is no cure today for the flu.

This also resulted in children’s rhyme. The little kids sang the song, “I had a bird, his name was enza, I opened up the window, and in flew enza.

The actual killer was pneumonia. People’s lungs filled with fluid and drown in their own fluids. People caught a virus and it went to their lungs

The government started to ban all public gatherings where people would be grouped together. They also made everyone wear masks to protect them from the flu. But the masks did nothing. “The masks were like trying to catch dust with chicken wire.”

This came without notice and left very fast also. But t

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