The true scale of the coronavirus outbreak currently sweeping the world has been laid bare in a visual timeline comparing it to history’s most deadly pandemics.
It shows the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, was the most lethal of all diseases, killing roughly 200million people in the 14th century.
Smallpox, the second deadliest pandemic in history, claimed the lives of 56million people over more than 400 years before it was finally eradicated in 1980.
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