What is Hong Kong flu?
The '''1968 influenza pandemic''' was a time when many people in the world caught [[H3N2]] [[influenza]] A and became sick. It was also called '''Hong Kong flu''' in Western countries because Westerners first noticed it when it was in Hong Kong. It spread through the whole world. It killed 1 million people.<ref name=CDC>{{cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.html|access-date=April 27, 2021|publisher=United States Centers for Disease Control|title=1968 Pandemic (H3N2 virus)|date=22 January 2019}}</ref><ref name=Twent>{{cite journal|author=Edwin D. Kilbourne|title=Influenza Pandemics of the 20th Century|journal=Emerg Infect Dis|year= 2006 |volume=12|issue=1|pages=9–14|doi=10.3201/eid1201.051254|pmid=16494710|pmc=3291411}}</ref> {{Infobox pandemic | date = July 1968－1969 (Possible up till 1970） | disease = [[Influenza]] | virus_strain = H3N2 | primary = | origin = | location = Worldwide | confirmed_cases = | deaths = }} ==References== {{reflist}} {{history-stub}} [[Category:1968]] [[Category:Influenza]] [[Category:20th-century epidemics]] {{Navseasoncats}}