How Asian flu went global
The World Health Organization has shown how the influenza virus A/Asia/57 spread from China to every continent in six months. A number of significant features have been found which have led to a better understanding of the epidemiology of influenza.
It seems that people over the age of 70 in the Netherlands, Australia and the US have proved to have antibodies against the virus, so it may be related to the virus which caused the 1889 pandemic. It also seems that shiploads of infected people have played a bigger part in transmitting the disease than…
