Viruses

Abstract

Throughout history, diseases have grown and mutated in ways that have taken lives globally around the world. To understand the danger of diseases and epidemics, a historical review is needed. This review provides context for how diseases begin, travel, and are mitigated throughout the last two decades. Pandemics have global implications as they grow and spread and have social, economic, and health impacts and can overwhelm healthcare systems. The emotional impacts of pandemics cause fear and anxiety. Pandemics have the power to impact globally or locally. Since 2003, pandemics from SARS to COVID-19 have created devastation around the globe, and even with modern science and technology have found ways to thrive and mutate.