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1968 flu pandemic, global outbreak of influenza that originated in China in July 1968 and lasted until 1969–70. The outbreak was the third influenza pandemic to occur in the 20th century; it followed the 1957 flu pandemic and the influenza pandemic of 1918–19. The 1968 flu pandemic resulted in an estimated one million to four million deaths ...
- Kara Rogers
- What was the 1968 flu pandemic?The 1968 flu pandemic was a global outbreak of influenza that originated in China in July 1968 and lasted until 1969–70. The outbreak, which is som...
- How many people died during the 1968 flu pandemic?The 1968 flu pandemic resulted in an estimated one million to four million deaths. This was far fewer than the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, which...
- Why was the 1968 flu pandemic less severe than the influenza pandemic of 1918–19?Unlike the 1918–19 and 1957 flu pandemics, the 1968 pandemic was caused by an influenza virus that was only slightly different from earlier influen...
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THE 1968 PANDEMIC. There are typically two influenza seasons in Hong Kong—January through March or April and July through August—but an unusual and sudden increase of patients with influenza-like illness (ILI) presented to government clinics there on July 13, 1968. 1 With 500 000 ILI cases in July, the outbreak was the largest in Hong Kong since the 1957 H2N2 pandemic. 2 The National ...
- Barbara J. Jester, Timothy M. Uyeki, Daniel B. Jernigan
- 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305557
- 2020
- 2020/05
Apr 8, 2020 · In 2018, the world commemorated the centennial of the 1918 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, the deadliest pandemic in recorded history; however, little mention was made of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 A(H3N2) pandemic. Although pandemic morbidity and mortality were much lower in 1968 than in 1918, influenza A(H3N2) virus infections have become the leading cause of seasonal influenza illness and ...
May 25, 2020 · The subsequent 1968 influenza pandemic—or “Hong Kong flu” or “Mao flu” as some western tabloids dubbed it—would have an even more dramatic impact, killing more than 30 000 individuals in the UK and 100 000 people in the USA, with half the deaths among individuals younger than 65 years—the reverse of COVID-19 deaths in the current ...
- Mark Honigsbaum
- 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31201-0
- 2020
- 13-19 June 2020
United States occurred late in the following season (1969– 1970). Over these two seasons, 70% of excess pneumonia and pandemic infl uenza deaths in the United States occurred dur-ing 1968–1969 season. This was unlike the experience in most countries, where the initial 1968 wave tended to be less severe but was followed by an increasingly
Dec 28, 2023 · A category 2 Flu pandemic sometimes referred to as “the Hong Kong Flu,” the 1968 flu pandemic was caused by the H3N2 strain of the Influenza A virus, a genetic offshoot of the H2N2 subtype. The first reported case was July 13, 1968 in Hong Kong. In less than three weeks the virus was reported in Singapore and Vietnam, and within three ...
