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               Introduction                           or fungi. These diseases can
               The  corona  virus  was  first         be  transmitted  directly  or
               discovered  in  late  2019  in         indirectly  from  one  person
               Wuhan,  China,  and  was               to another. Tuberculosis and

               officially  reported  to  the          various  types  of  influenza,
               World Health Organization              cholera,  measles,  SARS
               by  the  Chinese  National             and  Covid-19  are  among
               Health Commission on January           these diseases. We must also

               12,  2020.  (China  National           be  aware  of  the  fact  that
               Health  Commission,  2020)             Corona  is  not  the  last
               The virus spread around the            pandemic,  and  subsequent

               world  quickly,  which  the            pandemics are on the way.
               World Health Organization              About  eight  years  ago,
               described  on  March  11,              Ellen     G.P.     Ross     and

               2020  as  a  pandemic  or              colleagues  warned  that  the
               global epidemic. Since then,           outbreak of the Ebola virus
               a full-scale struggle against          signaled  another  pandemic

               humanity  has  begun.  (Ref:           in  the  near  future:  As  the
               WHO, 2020)                             Ebola  epidemic  slows,  we
                  The      World       Health         need to think about how we
               Organization defines infectious        can  better  prepare  for  the

               disease as: Infectious diseases        next pandemic. What is very
               are  caused  by  pathogenic            important is the abundance
               microorganisms  such  as               of  pandemics  that  have

               bacteria,  viruses,  parasites,
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