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样：悲惨、不可避免而且不可预测。它起源于一个随机事件。一种病毒跨越物种界限，从一只鸟、一只蝙蝠或其他动物跳到“零号病人”身上，接着这个人再把病毒传到其他人身上。在本世纪，我们很有可能会经历一次类似于1918年那样的流感疫情，当年的疫情曾导致5000万人死亡。
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