Abstract
The three influenza pandemics of the XX Century resulted in important impact in the morbimortalaity sue to
influenza and pneumonia in the world. The pandemic of 1918 caused greater mortality than the First World Was
and other epidemics, with an estimate of 20-40 million deaths in all the world. Pandemics occur when there is a
new viral subtype that is not fully known or is entirely unknown in the human immune system. Currently, there is
the occurrence of human cases of avian influenza (H5N1) with 307 cases and 186 deaths, especially in Asia ,
and epizooties in poultry and wild birds in many countries in the world. Registered human cases derive from
close contact with sick birds, and transmission among humans is nonexistent or quite sporadic. Countries have
developed contingency plans in order to address a new influenza pandemic, which could be caused by the
possibility of genetic recombination of the H5N1 virus, with potential dissemination and major health grievances
in the population.
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