Hong Kong flu
- Period
- July 1968 – December 1969
- Map
- Epidemics map
The Hong Kong flu, also known as the 1968 flu pandemic, was an influenza pandemic that occurred between 1968 and 1970 and which 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 through antigenic shift, a genetic process in which genes from multiple subtypes are reassorted to form a new virus.
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Earlier and later events nearby
- 1279Battle of Yamen
- 1757Qing restricts Western trade to Canton
- 1934–1935Long March
- July 1968 – December 1969Hong Kong fluThis page
- 1997Handover of Hong Kong
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- 1280Mongol Empire
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- 1650Southern Ming dynasty
- 1660–1670Qing dynasty
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