Strategic analysis on responding human avian flu and flu pandemic in China.

The 20th century has witnessed three global influenza pandemics attacking mankind, namely the 1918 Spanish pandemic (H1N1 subgroup), the 1957 Asian pandemic (H2N2 subgroup) and the 1968 Hong Kong pandemic (H3N2 subgroup). The first pandemic swept throughout the entire world within six to nine months, which affected 400 million people, accounting for 20% of the total world population, and 40 to 50 million deaths which were more than the total deaths in World War I, resulting the worst catastrophe in the history of human infectious diseases. At the moment, the world is threatened by an avian influenza pandemic and people are concerned about a potential worldwide human influenza pandemic.