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发布时间:2020-06-22 13:33:59
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{{B}}Lessons from the 1918 Flu{{/B}}
The last time a now influenza virus reached pandemic levels was in 1968,
but the episode was not significantly deadlier than a typical had fin season.
Few people who lived through it even knew it occurred. Still, it killed 34,000
Americans. The 1918 pandemic was far more lethal. It killed 675,000 Americans at
a time when the U.S. population was 100 million. Fifty million to 100 million
people purished worldwide in the 1918 pandemic, according to Nobel laureate F.
Macfarlane Burnet. The flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has ’killed
in 24 years. The difference in the death toll between 1918 and 1968 had little
to do with such medical advances as antibiotics for secondary bacterial
infections. The 1968 virus was simply much less virulent. But it wasn’t just the
virus. As with Hurricane Katrina, some of the deaths in 1918 were the
government’s responsibility. Surgeon Gene