读写教程4（ 第三版） Unit 6 Supplementary Text.pptVIP

尚辅网 Supplementary Text Lessons from the 1918 Flu The last time a new influenza virus reached pandemic levels was in 1968, but the episode was not significantly deadlier than a typical bad flu season. Few people who lived through it even knew it occurred, still, it claimed the lives of 34,000 Americans. The 1918 pandemic was far more lethal. It killed 675,000 Americans at a time when the US population was 100 million. Fifty million to 100 million people perished worldwide in the 1918 pandemic, according to Nobel laureate Frank Macfarlane Burnet. The flu killed more people in 24 weeks th