Hong Kong flu

"pandemic"
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Date	1968 - 1969
Deaths	1000000
Description	Officially a "pandemic" which killed about a million people

The 1968 flu pandemic was a category 2 flu pandemic whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969 which reportedly killed about a million people worldwide.^[1]^[2] It was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus, descended from H2N2 through antigenic shift, a genetic process in which genes from multiple subtypes reassorted to form a new virus. Because it originated in Hong Kong, the pandemic is also referred to as Hong Kong flu.^[3]

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[1] "Fundamental Immunology"

[2] "World health group issues alert Mexican president tries to isolate those with swine flu"

[3] "No need to panic ... yet Ontario officials are worried swine flu could be pandemic, killing thousands"

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