A panoramic view of the epidemics through time

Abstract

Since the appearence of man on earth epidemias have affected human history. This ia a true today as it ever. In december 2019, in Wuhan, China, a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 appearing in human beings. The disease it has been named COVID-19. This new disease spreads quckly in the world, and it was declared a pandemic on march 11, 2020. The aim of this paper is to analize in a time line the main epidemics that have plagued humanity.