The history of Hong Kong flu that had taken the lives of millions of people but stood out by COVID-19.

Just 52 years ago, more precisely in 1968, the world was hit by a new deadly flu that had been discovered in China and automatically was “bartur” in Hong Kong, and therefore it has taken on that name until it has spread to other parts of the world at great speed.

The H3N2 Pandemia has striking similarities with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Both viruses spread fast and aggressively, causing symptoms in the upper leaflet of respiratory channels such as fever, cough, and lack of sufficient breathing, the Telegraph transmits.

The worst are people over the age of 65 and those with other chronic diseases, so they create a type of “capacity” to infect people of all ages.

The first wave of Hong Kong flu had ended in early March in 1969, and it did not explode again until December the same year, and eventually disappeared in 1970.

According to the U.S. National Institute of Health and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, H3N2, as appointed by professionals, has claimed the lives of 4 million people in 122 countries in the world.

In Europe it has spread into two different waves until the U.S. deaths exceed 100,000 victims.

Despite the weight of the pandemic, schools in the U.S. had not been closed, except for some because of the large number of teachers of the patient, even facial masks have not been deemed necessary, and let alone that physical distance has not even been respected.

It is believed that the “grip of Asia” by 1957 had enabled the creation of the subx2>grip of Hong Kong “, through a process called “changing antigen”.

During this process, minor modifications of the gene group of the virus result in reactions to the human immune system. These changes explain why people are affected many times by the flu.

Life has continued normally, without pomp, despite the New York Times describing this pandemic as the worst “in the history of this nation”, and by September of that same year thousands of marines had returned from the Vietnam War.

Although the flu peaked until December 1968, all aspects of life have developed smoothly and panic. If nothing bad had happened, nobody cared.

Interestingly, reports of the virus have rarely appeared on the cover of international newspapers, leaving them on television unremembered. There were quite other times where various topics prevailed in the news: The first man on the moon, the assassination policy on Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, I prayed in Vietnam...