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735-737 Japanese smallpox epidemic vs Hongkong flu A/H3N2 1968-1969

735-737 Japanese smallpox epidemic
Hongkong flu A/H3N2 1968-1969
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735-737 Japanese smallpox epidemic

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Deaths 2000000

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The 735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic (天平の疫病大流行, Tenpyō no ekibyō dairyūkō, 'Epidemic of the Tenpyō era') was a major smallpox epidemic that afflicted much of Japan. Killing approximately 1/3 of the entire Japanese population, the epidemic had significant social, economic, and religious repercussions throughout the country.

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Hongkong flu A/H3N2 1968-1969

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Deaths 4000000

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The Hong Kong flu, also known as the 1968 flu pandemic, was a flu pandemic whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969 killed between one and four million people globally. It is among the deadliest pandemics in history, and was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus. The virus was descended from H2N2 (which caused the Asian flu pandemic in 1957–1958) through antigenic shift—a genetic process in which genes from multiple subtypes are reassorted to form a new virus.

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