Pandemic: The Price of Civilization

Author: Sang Lin
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Plague: An Unfading Nightmare of Humanity; Plague: The Cost of Human Civilization. The history of humanity is also the history of its diseases. Let us reflect on history, face reality, and move towards the future—human history is the history of its diseases. Diseases or pandemics have accompanied the process of human civilization. They are often more intense than wars, revolutions, or violent upheavals. Because they directly strike the core of civilization and the most fundamental element of all productive forces—humanity itself, attacking their bodies and minds. It can be said that in world history, any major pandemic has been brought about by the process of human civilization. Moreover, it has had an extremely profound and far-reaching impact on human civilization itself.