Abstract

PLACERES HERNANDEZ, José Fernando et al. COVID-19 and other pandemics. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2021, vol.43, n.1, pp. 2963-2976.  Epub Feb 28, 2021. ISSN 1684-1824.

A pandemics occurs when the epidemics crosses the international borders and usually affects a great number of people. Several pandemics have affected the humankind through the history. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was catalogued as pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. A bibliographic review was carried out on it, other communicable and non-communicable diseases, and also health problems affecting mankind during the last 100 years. These diseases and health problems afflict the whole planet in the 21st century and are also considered true pandemics. Wars, environment pollution, poverty, fame, infodemic, and others, together with COVID-19, should also raise sanitary, scientific, social, environmental and politic alarms to avoid, control and eradicate them.

Keywords : COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; pandemic; communicable/non-communicable diseases.

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