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The 1968–1969 pandemic
The first record of the outbreak in Hong Kong appeared on 13 July 1968. By the end of July 1968, extensive outbreaks were reported in Vietnam and Singapore. Despite the lethality of the 1957 Asian Flu in China, little improvement had been made regarding the handling of such epidemics. The Times newspaper was actually the first source to sound alarm regarding this new possible pandemic.
By September 1968, the flu reached India, the Philippines, northern Australia and Europe. That same month, the virus entered California from returning Vietnam War troops but did not become widespread in the United States until December 1968. It would reach Japan, Africa and South America by 1969. The outbreak in Hong Kong, where population density is greater than 6000 people per square kilometer, reached maximum intensity in two weeks, lasting six months in total from July to December 1968, however worldwide deaths from this virus peaked much later, in December 1968 and January 1969. By that time, public health warnings and virus descriptions were issued in the scientific and medical journals.
In comparison to other pandemics, the Hong Kong flu yielded a low death rate, with a case-fatality ratio below 0.5% making it a category 2 disease on the Pandemic Severity Index. The pandemic infected an estimated 500,000 Hong Kong residents, 15% of the population. In the United States, approximately 33,800 people died, including conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton in January 1969.
The same virus returned the following years: a year later, in late 1969 and early 1970, and in 1972.
Fewer people died during this pandemic than the two previous pandemics for various reasons:
some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.
nature manufactures viruses. i'm not afraid of the Carona
It is a genuine risk here as so many imports from China and we export our racehorses and other items hence we have a to and fro situation with people coming and going to China. We also have many Chinese living here, and we are a European country so the possibility of it coming here is not beyond the boundaries of possibility.
Are we ready? nope. We don't have the nebulisers and other equipment [amount needed] to deal with it.
It is supposed to be the worse pandemic word not mine,since the 2nd World War. Some are saying it is natures way of keeping down population but most who die are compromised medically but most are elderly.
Either way, I am washing my hands as usual when I have been to the supermarket but Masks don't work after a certain length of time on the nose and mouth so it's a case of wait and see.