This day in history: A novel coronavirus alert was lifted by the World Health Organization on this day in 2012 after they determined that the virus, which originated in Saudi Arabia, was not highly contagious.
There was also a little known 1889/1890 epidemic/pandemic that hit the elderly especially hard which many believe to be a coronavirus as well.
History has been stained with diseases and epidemics for millennia, but the population explosion over the past century has shown us a victory over the mass deaths like the Black Death or the Justinian Plague in times gone by.
See also: A Case for the Ancient Origin of Coronaviruses
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