At that time there were 1.8 Billion on the planet. The Spanish flu killed 1.2% of them.

当时地球上有18亿人，而西班牙流感导致了1.2%的人死亡。

The flu pandemic of 1918, also known as the Spanish flu, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide.

1918年的流感大流行，也被称为西班牙流感，在全球范围内感染了大约5亿人。

Till then, his father had a wartime marriage until he died and his mother succumbed to Spanish flu.

在此之前，就说他的爸爸战时结了婚，后来他战死，而他的妈妈也死于西班牙流感。

At the time it had been described as 'purulent bronchitis', but its symptoms resembled those of the Spanish flu.

当时它被描述为“化脓性支气管炎”，但其症状与西班牙流感相似。

This is almost certainly what happened to the Spanish flu strain, and I should stress almost.

几乎可以肯定这就是发生在西班牙流感毒株上的事情，我应该强调一下。

In 1918, the Spanish flu killed nearly 3 percent of the human population.

1918 年， 西班牙流感导致近 3% 的人口死亡。

A century before covid-19, anti-maskers in the era of Spanish flu waged a disinformation campaign.

在新冠肺炎 (covid-19) 爆发前一个世纪，西班牙流感时代的反口罩运动发起了一场虚假信息运动。

How did the Spanish flu begin?

西班牙流感是如何开始的？

I think of something like 100 years ago, the Spanish flu, that was another pandemic back in the day.

我想起了 100 年前的事情，西班牙流感，那是当时的另一种流行病。

But how much do you really know about the Spanish flu?

但是你对西班牙流感了解多少呢？

As the debate over when to reopen the economy drags on, the Spanish flu offers some clues.

随着关于何时重新开放经济的争论一拖再拖，西班牙流感提供了一些线索。

After the Spanish flu of 1918-19 – the last great world pandemic - letters and notes provided details about life during that health crisis.

上一个全球范围内传染病也就是1918至1919年西班牙流感之后，信件和笔记提供了关于那次健康危机时人们的生活细节。

The Spanish flu also displayed a unique capacity to proliferate at high rates inside human bronchial cells – and that explains its virulence.

西班牙流感还显示出一种独特的能力，即在人体支气管细胞内快速增殖，这也解释了它的毒性。

So the comparison to the Spanish flu is a reasonable one from the point of view of degree of infectiousness.

因此，从传染性的角度来看，与西班牙流感的比较是合理的。

The 1918 Spanish flu was easily the deadliest flu pandemic of the 20th century, killing tens of millions of people.

1918 年的西班牙流感很容易成为 20 世纪最致命的流感大流行，造成数千万人死亡。

People were tired of  the pandemic and ready to return to their lives, leaving them vulnerable to the Spanish flu.

人们厌倦了这种流行病并准备重返生活，这使他们很容易感染西班牙流感。

Some will reassure themselves that it is just temporary and that it will leave almost no mark, as with Spanish flu a century ago.

有些人会自我安慰说，这只是暂时的，几乎不会留下任何痕迹，就像一个世纪前的西班牙流感一样。

It was about the Spanish flu that killed tens of millions of people back in 1918. This book freaked George Bush out.

这是关于 1918 年导致数千万人死亡的西班牙流感。这本书把乔治·布什吓坏了。

I know it's bad, Neil, but compared to historical pandemics like the Spanish flu and economic crises like the Great Depression, coronavirus isn't actually so bad.

我知道情况很糟糕，内尔，但是跟历史上的流行病相比，例如西班牙流感和像大萧条那样的经济危机，新冠病毒其实没有那么糟糕。

Modern scientists believe that some of the deaths during the second wave of the Spanish  flu were caused or hastened by aspirin overdoses.

现代科学家认为，第二波西班牙流感期间的一些死亡是由阿司匹林过量引起或加速的。