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The Hong Kong flu, also known as the 1968 flu pandemic, was a flu pandemic that occurred in 1968 and 1969 and which killed between one and four million people globally. It is among the deadliest pandemics in history, and was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus.
- Treatment of influenza
Symptomatic treatment. The United States authority on...
- Treatment of influenza
Symptomatic treatment. The United States authority on disease prevention, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recommends that people with influenza infections: Stay at home. Get plenty of rest. Drink a lot of liquids. Do not smoke or drink alcohol. Consider over-the-counter medications to relieve flu symptoms.
The Hong Kong Flu was a flu pandemic caused by a strain of H3N2 descended from H2N2 by antigenic shift, in which genes from multiple subtypes reassorted to form a new virus. This pandemic of 1968 and 1969 killed an estimated one million people worldwide.
The majority of A (H3N2) virus infections resulted in clinically mild, uncomplicated upper respiratory tract disease. Predominant findings among uncomplicated pandemic cases included malaise, fever, myalgia, cough, headache, coryza, and sore throat.
25 Μαΐ 2020 · The virus emerged in China in the winter of 1957 and spread rapidly worldwide via ships, aeroplanes, and trains. In April, it sparked a major epidemic in Hong Kong, where about 250 000 people were infected, and by June India had seen over a million cases.
In 1997, an H5N1 avian influenza A virus was transmitted directly from chicken to humans in Hong Kong, killing six of the 18 people infected with 33% motality rate. 2–6 The H5N1 virus in Hong Kong seemed to be rarely transmissible from human to human. The 1997 H5N1 bird flu was once eradicated by the culling of all poultry in Hong Kong.
7 Ιουν 2020 · NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with epidemiologist Ed Belongia about the Hong Kong flu that's still circulating today, and what it can teach us about the coronavirus pandemic.
