DISASTERS - PANDEMIC
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
THE WORLD
DISASTERS
DISASTER PANDEMIC
"The deadliest killer in human history" is how scientists now describe the influenza virus of 1918. In sex months it killed 20 and 40 million people in a pandemic - a global epidemic - and then vanished. Unlike bubonic plague (the Black Death) which can now be controlled by modern medicine, flu has no known cure.If a similar virus broke out again, it could be the greatest disaster ever to strike humankind.
In 1918, people did not know how the deadly flu spread. Millions wore masks in the hope of avoiding infection when out in public places, but the gauze offered no real protection against the microscopic virus.
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