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Pandemic influenza viruses have emerged three times in this century: in 1918 (“Spanish” influenza, H1N1), in 1957 (“Asian” influenza, H2N2), and in 1968 (“Hong Kong” influenza, H3N2) (Cox and Subbarao, 2000; Webby and Webster, 2003).
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The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly ...
A flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new flu A virus. Flu pandemics happen when a new (novel) flu A virus emerges that is able to infect people easily and ...
Spanish flu was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.
10 Eyl 2024 · The most severe influenza outbreak of the 20th century and, in terms of total numbers of deaths, among the most devastating pandemics in human history.
27 Mar 2024 · A pandemic can occur when a new influenza A virus is able to easily infect and spread among people.
Influenza pandemics have been reported for at least 500 years, with inter-pandemic intervals averaging approximately 40 years.
An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads across a large region and infects a large proportion of the population.
The influenza virus had a profound virulence, with a mortality rate at 2.5% compared to the previous influenza epidemics, which were less than 0.1%.
The United States lost 675,000 people to the Spanish flu in 1918-more casualties than World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined.