Talk:List of epidemics and pandemics

Global population lost percentages
The column "global population lost" in the table for deadliest epidemics seems to have major issues, to the point it may be irredeemably WP:OR and the column may need to be removed. Almost all of these are cited to "World Population by Year" by Worldometer and the "World Population History" interactive webpage by "Population Education", a lesson plan supplier for K-12 education. Aside from the issue that the status of these sites as WP:Reliable sources is dubious at best, it is not at all clear how the table is deriving these figures from these sources, neither of which seem to mention epidemics or pandemics at all. Getting these figures is clearly not a matter of mere WP:CALC, so how can they be anything other than WP:OR and unverified? Does anyone have a solid policy-based reason for keeping this column? Crossroads -talk- 22:49, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

PS: The only one that is well-sourced, the Spanish Flu, could perhaps be pushed into the "regional population lost" column, which seems to be mostly better sourced, and that could be retitled just "population lost" and then keep using specifiers to indicate the region covered (e.g. Japan, global, etc.). Crossroads -talk- 22:54, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Legionnaires Disease again
There is still no coverage of Legionnaires' disease from the 1960s or 1970s, which are way, way more widely known. And there have been many more cases throughout the years than this. I like to saw logs! (talk) 07:36, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * do you have a source?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:49, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

It isn't explicit enough that this page is specifically for humans and not other animals
It seems to me that some text could be changed to make it more obvious that we are only concerned with the human aspect of it Oneequalsequalsone (talk) 09:11, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I've added "in humans" to the opening sentence. Bondegezou (talk) 10:13, 30 April 2024 (UTC)