Health
How do pandemics usually end? And how will this one finish? – ABC News
Just over 100 years ago, an influenza infected a third of the world’s population — but within just three years, the threat of this deadly flu had all but passed. So what changed — and how will the pandemic we’re currently living through change?
Just over 100 years ago, a new strain of influenza infected a third of the world’s population but within just three years, the threat of this deadly flu had all but passed.
This was a time before modern medical care and even before humans understood what viruses were. So what’s changed since then?
It’s a question plenty of you have asked in recent months: how do pandemics end? And how will the one we’re currently living through end?
Three ingredients for a pandemic
An infectious agent needs …
-
General11 hours agoQantas terminal at Melbourne Airport evacuated and flights delayed due to fire
-
General24 hours ago‘Brumby Bill’ recognising heritage value of wild horses to be scrapped in NSW
-
Noosa News20 hours agoJane Edmanson hangs up her Gardening Australia hat, reflects on labour of love behind show’s success
-
General20 hours agoFrench prisoners escape jail using saw and bedsheets