PANDEMICS – FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO COVID19. SOME THOUGHTS
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2020

<em>Since the dawn of civilization, there have been epidemics and pandemics. They are, in reality, an unintended consequence of civilization. Prehistoric societies (our ancestors), surely have been affected by diseases, but they had few opportunities to exchange germs outside their own culture since the earliest humans lived in small isolated bands. The condition shifted drastically when, about 10,000 years ago, the agricultural revolution replaced a nomadic, hunting-gathering society, with a se