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Q Article #3 due Thursday 8/27 by 11:59pm Article #3 due Thursday 8/27 by 11:59pm Dear Class: Please read pp. 23-27 from the article and the respond to the following (you may put your responses in essay form or just follow along the numbered questions): 1. What happened in 1968? Why is it described as "smoldering?" Why was the pandemic different in Europe than in US? What age groups were hit? 2. What ages were impacted by the A/H3N2 viruses? How does a novel influenza virus decrease over time? 3. What was the 1957 Asian Pandemic? Go to your browser and see what you find out and report on it. Citations for your research. 4. What happens to age groups when the 1918 Influenza Pandemic is revisited? 5. What are the lessons learned? List them. 6. How does the pandemic age shift for ALL pandemics impact who should get a vaccine or antiviral first? What priority would you set and why? 7. Go to your browser and find a photo from the 1918 flu epidemic and then Write a poem about it. 8. Citations please. PAM

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It is said that influenza A was responsible for the 1968 pandemic that took the lives of so many people. The smoldering pandemic was connected with the 1968 Hong Kong influenza pandemic. People between 65 years and older died in United States during this particular pandemic. It is said that A/H3N2 infected outpatients between the age groups of 0 to 6 years and 24-49 years and in patients who were greater than 65 years of age. Gradually it subsided. Since the novel influenza virus was associated with swine, it decreased with the reduction in the consumption of pork and other animals.