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Daily Mail: How coronavirus compares to history's deadliest pandemics: Visual timeline pits COVID-19 against Black Death, smallpox and AIDS - as experts warn current crisis could rival Spanish flu 'in its lethality and scale'
* Shows bubonic plague, also known as Black Death, killed 200million people and most lethal of all pandemics
* 1918 Spanish flu outbreak claimed lives of almost 50million people in just one year after racing around globe
* By comparison, COVID-19 killed more than 7,000 people and infected 182,000 since outbreak in December
* Scientists say the 'scale' and 'lethality' of the virus is on the scale of Spanish flu and warn of lack of vaccine
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.
By comparison, COVID-19 has so far killed 7,000 people and infected more than 180,000 since December. But it is still in its early stages.
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WNU Editor: The Black Death's 200 million deaths occurring when the global population was just a fraction of what it is today is a sobering number.
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