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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
I was thinking of all the different deadly flu strains like Russian, Asian and Hong Kong that are no longer with us, plus sars, H1N1, Spanish bird flu and the ones that whilst with us are controllable with drugs like aids and the plague.
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From the information I have seen (I know it's Wikipedia so I'm sure there are other sources) 'Asian' flu turned into the Hong Kong flu so died out naturally, but both the 'Hong Kong' flu variant and the 'Russian' flu variant are still with us. However we have vaccines for them which will be part of the yearly programme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E..._and_aftermath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_K..._and_aftermath