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People will argue when the first documented case of pandemic actually happened. The Peloponnesian War Pestilence recorded to have taken place in 430 BC during the war between Athens and Sparta, it was documented by a historian Thucydides. This was a great pestilence that wiped out 30,000 of the citizens of Athens (roughly one to two thirds of all Athenians died). It is said that not many days after Attica was invaded by Archidamus, the plague first began to show itself among the Athenians. Since the devastation of the plague was so extent and the physicians at first were ignorant, that they had never experienced anything of this magnitude before. They had no proper way to treat it, and ultimately died themselves, as they visited the sick most often. It is said that the sickness first began in Ethiopia and descended into Egypt and Libya, then spreading into Athens. The symptoms were described as something that spread at an incredible rate, causing fever, vomiting and diarrhea, and a general delirium, often killing the infected after only a few days. Ironically the detailed desc...

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