What is pandemic influenza
An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the human population. Pandemics can cause high levels of mortality, with the Spanish influenza estimated as being responsible for the deaths of over 50 million people.Influenza pandemics occur when a new strain of the influenza virus is transmitted to humans from another animal species.
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