Across the world, the disease killed more people in two years than the four years of fighting had. A century on, a new flu virus is the risk that most worries experts. “The flu is a respiratory virus that is easily transmitted and people can be contagious even before they show symptoms, so it is not easy to control,” said Briand. Still vulnerableDespite the development of anti-viral drugs, antibiotics, and the first vaccines, two other flu pandemics erupted after the Spanish flu, in 1957 and 1968 – killing millions. The SARS respiratory virus killed some 770 people in 2003.

Source: Pakistan Today January 26, 2018 03:33 UTC