Medicine in Philately: Pandemics from past to present

Aim: There have been many pandemics that have left deep traces in human history. Many pandemics have caused crises in societies and negative consequences on health, economy, social and global security. Pandemics are foreseen as processes that will continue to exist in the future as they have in the past and present. Therefore, examining past pandemics can serve to better understand, analyze and manage future pandemic processes. From this point of view, this article aims to emphasize past pandemics through philately medicine, to draw attention to possible pandemics in the future, and to raise awareness about the precautions to be taken. 
Materials and Methods: This article focuses on describing the discovery and development of pandemics around the world through historical stamps, postal history and other related items. Philately is the study of stamps, postal history and other related items. But philately is much more than stamp collecting. Philately involves the study of the design and educational impact of a material. This article presents medicine historical stamps produced worldwide from the past to the present to highlight the history of the pandemic. The stamp captions are based on a scan of the 6-volume Scott Catalog of Standard Postage Stamps (2017). The copyright of the stamps used in the article belongs to the philatelist author 
Results: This article presents pandemic stamps produced worldwide between 1962 and 2020. In the article, a total of 17 philatelic materials (historical stamps) are presented on the subject of describing the prehistoric life of people, infectious diseases that cause pandemics, transmission routes of epidemics, prevention, treatment approaches, losses in pandemics and struggles against pandemics. 
Discussion and Conclsiıons: This research provides an overview of the development and history of pandemics around the world, using philatelic medicine materials produced worldwide during pandemics from past to present.