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Pandemics have been regular throughout history. We see that they have changed the fortunes of societies, sometimes devastating them, such as Native American populations, to the point where they have never really recovered to the population levels seen earlier. More pandemics have been likely, as many have been mistaken for forms of local plagues, even if they were pandemics that traveled along trade routes and with travelers. Pandemics in recent history have been more commonly based on forms of flu. Interestingly, few types of flu-like pandemics have been recorded until the late 19th century. However, this simply could be because influenza, or flu, was not known until the 18th century in most of the West.

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