Sentences with phrase «most deadly pandemic»

It is considered the most deadly pandemic in modern history, infecting one third of the world's population.

They were particularly interested in the virus's molecular engineering because the 1918 «Spanish flu» was the most deadly pandemic in history, killing 20 million to 40 million worldwide.

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They report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that genes of the 1918 virus were most likely present in swine or human hosts at least 2 and possibly 15 years before the pandemic began and combined to form the deadly virus during multiple reassortments, presumably rare events in which flu viruses exchange genes.

A handful of flu pandemics have occurred in the 20th century; the 1918 one, also called the Spanish flu, was the most deadly, killing between 20 million and 40 million people.

The most difficult of these mysteries, Wildfire, presents the player with a deadly pandemic sweeping through both your martian colony and Earth as well.