记80年前流感大流行

The Pandemic of Influenza Eighty Years Ago

流行性感冒是一种常见的急性传染病，追溯其历史和研究过程，对流感这种疾病本身及其它传染病都有借鉴意义。本文从西方对流感的认识和流感流行史两方面，进行了探讨。今年距１９１８年流感大流行整整８０年，文章重点分析了１９１８年流感在世界和中国的流行情况，以事实证明疾病不亚于战争。通过２０世纪流感的研究成果说明即使到今天人类在很多疾病面前还束手无策，因此预防思想仍是今后医学的发展方向。中医学是世界医学的宝贵财富，例如在治疗流感方面，中医学有其独到之处。

Influenza, called flu for short, is an acute, contagious disease caused by a filtrable virus. It is very useful to study the disease itself and other contagions. This article probes the problem from two aspects, viz. the recognition of flu in western medicine and the recognition of etiology and pandemic history. In 1918, flu spread over practically the entire world, including China in a few months, and casued more than twenty million casualties, demonstrating that disease is no less than a battle. The results of research on flu in the 20th century reveal that, even today, people are quite helpless in many kinds of diseases, hence, prevention is more important. It is convincing that Chinses Traditional Medicine can affect medicine dramatically in the future, both in keeping people′s bealth and the development of medicine.