His "fast and dirty" analysis of Mexico's swine flu outbreak suggests that the H1N1 virus is about as dangerous as the virus behind a 1957 pandemic that killed 2 million people worldwide.

他对墨西哥猪流感爆发“迅速并且肮脏”的分析显示H1N1病毒与1957年爆发的疫情病毒一样危险，当时的感冒病毒致使全球两百万人丧命。

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The twentieth century saw 20 to 100 million deaths from pandemic flu and 200 million deaths from wars and famine, but 2 billion deaths from preventable childhood causes.

在二十世纪，两千万到一亿人死于大流行性流感，两亿人死于战争和饥荒，还有二十亿人的死因与儿童期本可预防的疾病有关。

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This week he terrorised ministers gathered in Downing Street's Cobra bunker into conceding his dream, a 2, 000-strong department for a "national pandemic flu service".

本周被他吓坏了内阁大臣们聚集在唐宁街Cobra里商讨对策以实现唐纳森的梦想——联合超过2000个部门来进行“全国流感防治”。

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Were the virus to reach any of the refugee camps that house more than 2 million Syrian refugees, a genuine pandemic could ensue.

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By contrast, the 1918 flu pandemic that killed 50 million had an incubation period of two days (and an R of 2).

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