Every year, seasonal influenza sweeps the nation. In the United States, approximately 200,000 people are hospitalized and 36,000 die as a result of influenza each year. Less often, a more serious strain of flu causes a pandemic. An influenza pandemic is a global outbreak that occurs when a new virus emerges in the human population. People have little or no immunity to the virus, which spreads easily from person to person and causes serious illness.
In the last 100 years, we have seen at least three influenza pandemics, the most severe occurring in 1918 — often called the “Spanish Flu” — and the most recent in 1968.
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