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Influenza

机译：流感

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It has all the makings of a cheesy Hollywood horror flick: A shape-shifting killer travels the globe, leaving millions of corpses in its wake, and the world's medical community can't stop the carnage. It's a sophomoric idea for a movie script, but that's exactly what unfolded during the waning months of the first World War, late in 1918, and through much of 1919. Within 10 months the influenza virus affected the lives of up to 500 million people across the globe and killed at least 20 to 40 million―more than twice the number who died on the battlefields of World War I. Many epidemiologists believe that a similar scenario will happen again. But this time it will be worse. This is not hyperbole. In 1997 the world came perilously close to another global epidemic of the "flu." If this particular virus had attained the ability to spread from person to person, the pandemic might have taken the lives of a third of the human population. As it was, only six people died―and all of them had contracted the virus from chickens sold in Hong Kong poultry markets. The only thing that saved us was the quick thinking of scientists who convinced health authorities to slaughter more than a million domesticated fowl in the city's markets. The avian virus turned out to be a new strain―one that the human population had never seen before. These deadly new strains arise a few times every century, and the next one may arrive any day now.
机译：它具有好莱坞俗气的恐怖气息：形形色色的杀手s游全球，无数尸体醒来，世界医学界也无法阻止这场屠杀。对于电影剧本来说，这是个很激进的主意，但这恰恰是在第一次世界大战（1918年末）和整个1919年大部分时间逐渐减少的几个月中展现出来的。在10个月内，流感病毒影响了全球5亿人的生命在全球范围内造成至少20至4000万人死亡，是在第一次世界大战战场上死亡的人数的两倍多。许多流行病学家认为，类似的情况还会再次发生。但是这次会更糟。这不是夸张的。 1997年，世界危险地接近另一种全球流行的“流感”。如果这种特殊的病毒具有在人与人之间传播的能力，那么这种大流行可能夺走了三分之一的人口的生命。当时只有六人死亡，而且所有人都感染了在香港家禽市场出售的鸡肉中的病毒。唯一拯救我们的是科学家们的快速思考，他们说服卫生当局在城市的市场上宰杀了超过100万只家禽。事实证明，禽病毒是一种新病毒株，这是人类从未见过的病毒。这些致命的新毒株每个世纪都会出现几次，而下一个毒株现在可能会在任何一天到来。

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