دراسة تاريخية عن الجوائح التي انتشرت في العراق الحديث وآثارها الاقتصادية والاجتماعية ومعالجاتها الرسمية والشعبية والقانونية

Abstract

Health, economic and cultural backwardness was the dominant feature of the peoples of the ancient world, including Iraq in particular, where we read a lot about diseases and epidemics that ravaged the peoples of the world and killed millions of them, and we as Muslims also read about the plague that spread in the Levant at the beginning of the Islamic conquest of this Arab land and the expulsion of the Romans from it. And the Muslims lost many of them more than they sacrificed in the battles of the Islamic conquest, including the great companion Aba Ubaidah Amer Ibn al-Jarrah, the leader of the Muslims in the battles and then the governor of the Levant and Yazid Ibn Abi Sufyan, one of the leaders of the Islamic conquest. Between the sixteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, modern Iraq witnessed more than (20) epidemic outbreaks, between limited and widespread. And between the period between the second half of the nineteenth century until the first quarter of the twentieth century, there were (19) epidemic outbreaks between wide and limited spread, especially the years 1867 to 1917 AD, and now after the outbreak of the Corona pandemic in our country and the whole world and its spread in Iraq at the beginning of the year 2020 AD, which infected Millions of the world’s peoples have collapsed in front of this pandemic, the best health services in the world, and it is still killing between day and night, in hot and cold weather, and all laboratories in the world are working to find an effective vaccine to stop this pandemic, which has brought the world to the brink of economic, health, educational, financial and social collapse.