الأوبئة عبر التاريخ : دراسة ثقافية اجتماعية

Abstract EN

In Wuhan, China late December 2019, the respiratory infection disease (pneumonia) was reported, which later known as Covid 19.

many health commission and ministries around the world, led by the world health organization, warned about it.

aftermath classified as a pandemic, and as a result many countries employed the necessary precautionary measures to avoid the spread of the disease within their territories.

in that manner, the government of Saudi Arabia has begun preparing the necessary and precautionary measures to contain the pandemic.

aim : this study aimed to track and analyze epidemics through history.

method : this study adopted the documentary and historical method to track changes and events that were associated with those epidemics.

as well, how societies dealt with them and the means of its spread during multiple stages of time.

results : many members of society believed that the epidemic was a punishment from god due to distance from performing religious practices.

also, the spread of epidemics led to an imbalance in the population structure, which in turn led to a large variation in population density between cities and villages due to epidemics.

in addi tion, one of the most prominent preventive methods to eliminate the epidemic was health quarantine.

from an economic point of view : in most epidemics, economic life in the affected countries has been paralyzed, and caused catastrophic crises.

as well, poor quality of food resources if they are even available in the markets.pared to the traditional method.