Epidemics and Inequalities in Belgium from the Plague to COVID-19 What Can We Learn about Societal Resilience? A Brain-Belspo Research Project 2020 - 2021 Corona Highest excess mortality in Belgium since World War II 1918 - 1919 Spanish flu The most deadly 20th-century outbreak in Belgium 1866 Cholera The most deadly epidemic in 19th-century Belgium 1693 - 1694 Dysentery and typhus Epidemic outbreak and harvest failure during the Nine Years War 1400 - 1600 Plague Waves Recurrent epidemic outbreaks with local population losses up to 20 percent