1957–1958 influenza pandemic
pandemic of influenza virus (H2N2) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
pandemic of influenza virus (H2N2) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1957-58 influenza pandemic, also called Asian flu was a time when many people caught H2N2 influenza A and became sick. Westerners first learned about this influenza when it was in Singapore. It killed 1.1 million people.[1]
The influenza virus that caused the pandemic had an HA antigen and NA antigen that scientists had never seen before, so they named it "H2N2."[2]
The 1957 influenza pandemic was the first time scientists truly studied how influenza could move through large groups of people who had not had vaccines that worked against it yet.[2]
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