By: Mohammad Salim Khan, Sr. Sub Editor-ICN Group
SAHASWAN/BUDAUN: At this time not only India but most of the countries of the world are coping with the heroic epidemic called Corona with great valor. As soon as Corona’s name comes, a common man gets scared in front of him.This terrible disease has not only brought the country but also the economic system of most of the countries on the ground. Due to this epidemic there is another loss of lives and on the other hand, there is also a livelihood crisis in front of people.
The World Health Organization WHO has declared Corona as a World Pandemic on 12 March 2020. But no matter what the situation, we should never be disappointed. Disillusionment takes man to the abyss of darkness from which it is imposible for man to come back, so we should believe with confidence in the belief of God and his great existence that the future will be good.
History is a witness to the fact that one of the most dangerous world epidemics came in the world and assaulted in the whole world. Not hundreds not thousands, but millions of people’s lives swallowed. Many world epidemics such as Spanish flu black death which is also known as ”The Great Plague”, before the epidemic named Corona. Asian flu, Hong Kong flu, cholera, swine flu have played the game of death in the world. From May 1918 to December 1920, the Spanish flu, the influenza virus, hunted about 1/3 of the world’s population.
About 500 million people were infected by the flu in the world and more than 50 million people died due to Spanish flu. At the time when there was an outbreak of Spanish flu in India and thousands of people were dying in succession, then there was even less wood for the funeral. At that time, India’s economy also went into the deep of the bottom.
The Spanish flu infection engulfed one crore eight million Indians. Famous Hindi poet Suryakant Tripathi Nirala wrote in his autobiography Kulli Bhat that, ”I was standing on the bank of the Ganges in Dal Mau, there were piles of corpses all around, and no wood was found for the funeral. My wife Manohara Devi and my nephew of 15 years and my daughter of 1 year also succumbed to this epidemic”.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) the leader of Indian freedom was also hit by Spanish flu infection but luckily Mahatma Gandhi escaped from the hands of a demon named Spanish flu. Gandhiji’s daughter-in-law Gulab and grandson Shanti died of the same disease. It is also said that the great novelist Munshi Premachandra was also in the grip of Spanish flu infection.
Spanish flu is also called mother of all pandemic. At that time the First World War had ended, but the number of people who died from this epidemic was more than those who died in the World War. Medical historian and author of the book Riding the Tiger, Amit Kapoor writes that on 10 June 1918, 7 police personnels who were stationed at the port.
On the complaint of cold infection he was admitted in the hospital. This was the first case of the infectious disease Spanish flu in India. John Berry writes in his book The Great Influenza The Epic Story of the Deadliest in History, about 6 lacs & 75 thousands people were killed by Spanish flu in America with a population of 10 & half crores.
In America, it was common in Philadelphia that the clergy would come on horseback and asked the people door to door to throw out the dead bodies from their homes. Initially, when the disease spread, governments around the world hid it so that the moral of the soldiers fighting on the border would not fall.
The disease was first disclosed by Spain, this is why the epidemic got the name Spanish Flu. Smallpox tuberculosis HIV and swine flu in 2009 are examples of recent world diseases throughout history. From October 1347 to 1353, the black death epidemic was the largest ever terrible epidemic in the world in which more than 100 million people had died.
In Europe, the epidemic called the Black Death was a type of virus caused by a different form of plague that killed 30% to 60% of Europe’s total population. In this article, the number of deaths due to various types of epidemics and the date has been taken on the basis of the facts of the historians. If there is any error in this article, then the author apologizes for that.
