Epidemics and pandemics are like earthquakes. Tragic, inevitable and unpredictable. It starts as a random event. A virus jumps species from a bird, bat, or other animal to “Patient Zero” – who passes it on to other human beings. More likely than not, over the course of this century we will face an influenza pandemic similar to the one in 1918 that killed 50m people.
流行病和流行病疫情就像地震一樣：悲慘、不可避免而且不可預(yù)測。它起源于一個隨機事件。一種病毒跨越物種界限，從一只鳥、一只蝙蝠或其他動物跳到“零號病人”身上，接著這個人再把病毒傳到其他人身上。在本世紀(jì)，我們很有可能會經(jīng)歷一次類似于1918年那樣的流感疫情，當(dāng)年的疫情曾導(dǎo)致5000萬人死亡。
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