The 1918 Pandemic: 1918年大流行病毒
History has the habit of repeating itself. This time it has taken 102 years for the Coronavirus to reappear in the form of the current COVID-19 pandemic. In 1918 the earlier version of this virus came to this world and killed at least 50 million people. That influenza pandemic was known as the Spanish Flu. 500 million people were affected by the Spanish Flu. This number was about a third of the world’s population then. The Spanish Flu lasted from January 1918 right through to December 2020, a period of three years. 历史有重演的习惯。这次，冠状病毒以目前的COVID-19大流行的形式重新出现了。102年前，1918年，这种病毒的早期版本问世，造成至少5,000万人死亡。这种流感大流行被称为西班牙流感。 5亿人受到西班牙流感的影响。那时，这个数字约占世界人口的三分之一。西班牙流感从1918年1月开始持续到2020年12月，为期三年。 Take a look at the following […]
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