Abstract
Plagues have shaped our history to some extent as they have been the biggest killers of people and led human beings inevitably to think about some very pertinent questions. The outbreak of plagues in the past raised the whole issue of man’s relationship with God. How could it be that calamities of this kind could occur with omnipresent, all-knowing and omniscient divinity? Who would allow His children to be tortured in anguish, in vast numbers? Diseases do not afflict societies in random and in chaotic ways. They are ordered events because microbes selectively expand and diffuse themselves to explore ecological niches that human beings have created. In an age where scientists are working on life extension or immortality, we are facing an existential threat due to an attack by an invisible enemy, i.e., Covid-19. This existential crisis demands a wholistic analysis of epidemics or pandemics caused by microbes. The author in this article has examined the plagues from a historical, descriptive and comparative method to get an in-depth knowledge of outbreaks.
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