The most dangerous epidemics around the world in the twenty-first century

The outbreak of the Corona virus causes great consternation in the world due to its wide geographical area and the appearance of almost every day new infections in many countries, especially Arab ones, such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Sultanate of Oman and Algeria ... But this epidemic that first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December December 2019, which has so far claimed more than 2,700 souls, is not the first that humankind faces. What are the serious epidemics known to the world during the twenty-first century.

During the twenty-first century, the world faced many epidemics that were no less threatening than the Coruna virus. Despite its serious health and rapid outbreaks, such as the Ebola epidemic in Africa, for example, governments and international organizations, especially the World Health Organization, were able to overcome these epidemics thanks to wide mobilization.

Will the Corona virus, which appeared in China at the end of last year, know the same fate, or are there fears that it will escape control and turn into a real global health threat?

Waiting to know the fate of this epidemic or to find therapeutic antidotes to eradicate it, a historical return on the most prominent and dangerous epidemics in the world in the twenty-first century. And if some of them appeared in the 20th century, most of them emerged and spread or reappeared in the 21st century.