What was the biggest pandemic of the 20th Century and of all known history?
Smallpox was the biggest killer.
It is estimated that Smallpox killed around 500 million people in the last 100 years of its existence.
It was eradicated in 1980 due to vaccines and antibiotics.
As recently as 1967, 15 million cases of Smallpox occurred a year.
An outbreak of Smallpox in West Bengal India in 1974 killed almost 20,000 people.
However, today due to vaccines and antibiotics, it is has been erradicated since 1980.
These following diseases decimated the world's population in the 19th Century and in the early 20th Century -
Smallpox,
Bubonic Plague
Malaria,
Influenza,
Polio
Ebola,
Tuberculosis,
Cholera,
Leprosy,
Diphtheria,
Hepatitis,
Measels,
Childhood deaths at birth due to no hygiene.
7 out 10 births in the 19th Century ended in death caused by doctor's unclean habits, like not washing hands, it was practiced in Hungry as early as 1850, but was only taken seriously in the United States until the early 1890s.
The invention of the microscope in 1590 revealed a whole new world of germs, bacteria and viruses, but no one back then understood this "underworld of creatures" they could now see, caused diseases.
That would not be realized until the 1850s in Europe and 1890s in the United States.
Only in the 1890s was hand washing introduced in American hospitals because doctors now believed that germs, bacterial and virus could kill you.
This practise of washing hands spread all over the world, from Europe, to the Americas, China and India.
And immediately childhood death mortality decreased.
The fact is, millions died because of unclean filthy habits and having no vaccines or antibiotics (Not introduced until 1942)
And of course, religious superstition nonsense, generally condemned all modern scientific advancement.
Religious nonsense ideas at this time, believed that each disease was a demon possessing the body. This belief was very prominant, especially in Europe, the Americas and India.
These primitive nonsense superstitious beliefs denied millions of proper medical care.
(How the demigods control material affairs is on my blog page, what is explained here is how ignorant religions were in the 19th Century of their own tradition that includes the Vedas)
The World population as late as the beginning of the 20th Century, was kept under just one billion people due diseases and the ignorant superstitious way they were dealt with by religious nonsense in mainly Christianity and Demigod worship in India.
Today because of vaccines, antibiotics, washing one's hands and keeping everything clean, including a better understanding of mental health, instead of claiming everyone with mental illness is possessed by demons, the life span is a lot longer.
Brahma-bhuta possessions (ghostly haunted) does exist however, it is very, very rare, 99% of all mental illness and disturbances is due to a biological imbalance in the brain, a tumor.
Or from experience of some form of child abuse, exploitation and having one's self esteem and worth squashed by a bully or over demanding family members or so called friends.
We see today the world population has exploded to almost 8 billion people.
Even as late as the 1970s, I witness how primitive India's health system was.
In Vrindavana people would pass stool on the sides of road.
And then at 6pm, the authorities let out wild pigs who would go through the streets of Vrindavana eating up the stool.
This was their sewage system then.
Materially in the early 1970s, I found India a filthy unclean place where many devotees got very sick, some even died.
Today in 2020, India has greatly improved due medical advancement where authorities no longer follow nonsense Astrology, and ONLY include their Ayurvedic roots for basic health.
Ayuravedic medician DOES have many good remedies however, it has nothing like antibiotics and vaccines, nor can their Ayurvedic doctors perform heart, liver, skin, limbs and Kidney transplants, or proper diabetes drugs that have saved millions of lives, allowing India's population to reach 1.4 billion people.
In the 21st Century there are still dangerous pandemics like.
Coronavirus COVID-19 (2020 that caused a world wide shut down killing 90,000 people in its first 4 weeks (still happening now as I write),
Pneumonia,
SARS,
Hepatitis B,
Avian Influenza...
In 1918/20 only 15,000 died in Australia from the Spanish Influenza pandemic because they immediately ordered a lock, a stay at home order.
ReplyDeleteWhile a massive 90 million died around the world, 22 million just in India alone.
And India's Vedic Brahmins, following Ayurvedic methods, tried everything in big religious gatherings.
from burning Cow dung,
to spreading Ganges water,
putting Tulsi leaf on people.
And chanting mantras.
None of these things worked history records, deaths greatly increased.
In fact, it was the religious gatherings that helped spread the Spanish Flu everywhere killing millions.
22 million Indians died.
It was only when isolation began did numbers drop.
Sadly it took 18 years to develop a vaccine and millions more died through the 1920s and early 1930s.
The 1938 Influenza vaccine was used in world war 2 with all Allied troops and saved millions.
Also the many vaccines do protect everyone.
Please do not listen to these foolish anti-vaccination morons.
Look at History, before 1955, 250 million people died of various diseases from 1900 to 1955 that we now have vaccines for.
Such vaccines for
Influenza,
Cholera,
Polio,
Diphtheria,
Hepatitis,
Measels,
Mumps,
Small Pox,
Leprosy,
Whoop Cough,
Tetanus,
Rebola,
etc.
Since the 1940s, when the world Population was 2 just billion, because vaccines save lives, the world Population in 2020 is nearly 8 billion,
These stupid Anti-vaccination fools should look to history when in 1900, 7 out of every 10 children born were dead by 3 years of age.
Vaccinations has stopped this.
The fringe foolish anti-vaccination groups are all crack pots to bonafide medical doctors, in fact, laws have tightened because of them.
There IS no choice getting vaccine. The Gurukula at Murwillumbah have been warned if they avoid vaccinations.
All Government funding will stop and the Gurukula will be closed down and parents and ISKCON charged.
There is no choice!