For all of human history, the courses of entire civilizations have been rewritten thanks to nature’s quiet killers: diseases. Epidemics and pandemics have become commonplace in almost every generation, with deadly illnesses burning through populations with ease.
The death toll throughout history is truly staggering, and the numbers continue to climb. But which epidemics and pandemics killed the most people in history? And what were the diseases responsible for them? Click on to find out.