A Tale of Three Recent Pandemics: Influenza, HIV and SARS-CoV-2
A Tale of Three Recent Pandemics: Influenza, HIV and SARS-CoV-2
Emerging infectious diseases are one of the main threats to public health, with the potential to cause a pandemic when the infectious agent manages to spread globally. The first major pandemic to appear in the 20th century was the influenza pandemic of 1918, caused by the influenza A H1N1 strain …