Cross-species transmission
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A new coronavirus, designated 2019-nCoV, was identified in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, after people developed pneumonia without a clear cause and for which existing vaccines or treatments were not effective.
Confirmed cases 142,000+[2]
Recovered 70,000+[2]
Deaths 5,300+[2]
See also
- Coronavirus disease 2019
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
- Cross-species transmission
- Emerging infectious disease
- List of epidemics
- List of people with coronavirus disease 2019
- List of public venues and institutions closed during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
- Pandemics
- Virgin soil epidemic
- Wildlife trafficking and emerging zoonotic diseases
- Wuhan Institute of Virology
Most deadly pandemics
- 300,000,000+ - Smallpox (20th Century alone)
- 300,000,000+ - Bubonic Plague: Black Death - 1300's-1720's; Plague of Justinian - 540-590; Third Pandemic - 1850's-1950's (same disease)
- 20,000,000 - 100,000,000 - Spanish Flu (worldwide, 1918 - 1919)
- 10,000,000 - 100,000,000 - deaths from diseases in Europe (millions) and the Americas (tens of millions) from diseases exchanged between continents after 1492
- 25,000,000 - AIDS (deaths worldwide, 1981 - present)
- 10,000,000 - Bubonic Plague (China, 1892 - 1896)
- 5,000,000 - Antonine Plague (Roman Empire 165 - 180)
- 4,000,000 - Asian Flu pandemic (worldwide, 1957)
- 1,000,000 - Hong Kong Flu pandemic (worldwide, 1968)
- 130,000 - North American smallpox epidemic (1775 - 1782)
- 60,000 - Great Plague of London (1665)
- 775 - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (Mostly East Asia, few cases in Europe, Canada and United States, 2002-2003)
- 677 - West Nile Virus outbreak (North America, 1999 - 2004)
- 86 - H5N1 strain of bird flu (started in Asia) (late 2003-present)
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