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The Reasons Why 6 Devastating Pandemics in History Ended! Pandemics are hardly a recent problem. In fact, humanity has been fighting infectious diseases for millennia, be it the plague, smallpox, cholera, the flu, or COVID-19. History shows us that ultimately, all pandemics end somehow, but it is humanity’s knowledge of their enemy and effective ways to fight it that helps tilt the odds our way. And we have learned A LOT since the times of the Black Death during the Middle Ages, though it turns out we still have a lot more to learn about the microbes that make us sick. Here is how 6 major disease outbreaks in history have ended, and what we have learned from them. 1.The Black Death (1347-1351) The plague had been around for millennia, and for a long time, people had no idea how to contain it, not to mention cure it. One of ...