Hongkong Ful. I was 15 in 1969 and my first year at work i caught the flu and lived to tell the tale as did my parents and grandparents. The 1968 pandemic was caused by an influenza a h3n2 virus comprised of two genes from an avian influenza a virus including a new h3 hemagglutinin but also contained the n2 neuraminidase from the 1957 h2n2 virus.
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It followed the 1957 flu pandemic and the influenza pandemic of 1918 19. Just how much so can be seen if we look back at how the u s. It was also the year of a strain of the flu that started in hong kong that spread and killed nearly a million people.
H3n2 or the hong kong flu as it was more popularly known was an influenza strain that the new york times described as one of the worst in the nation s history the first case of h3n2 which.
The forgotten hong kong flu pandemic of 1968 has lessons for today. It was also the year of a strain of the flu that started in hong kong that spread and killed nearly a million people. The 1968 pandemic was caused by an influenza a h3n2 virus comprised of two genes from an avian influenza a virus including a new h3 hemagglutinin but also contained the n2 neuraminidase from the 1957 h2n2 virus. And indeed the world handled the now largely forgotten 1968 69 hong kong flu pandemic.
