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I'm Gabriella Jones.

In 1957, a new strain of flu emerged from East Asia and spread around the world,

killing over a million people.

I probably picked it up at the airport where I was in contact with a lot of people coming in from overseas.

I started to feel the next day completely exhausted.

I started to have a headache at a sore throat,

aching all over and had a fever, about a hundred and one.

And the darkest told me this was the Asiatic Flow.

That was one of the more than 10 million victims of Asiatic or Asian flu, a new form of influenza.

Asian flu, as it was called at the time, first emerged in Singapore in February 1957.

By April, it was in Hong Kong. Our first report came from the World Health

Organization Regional Center in the Western Pacific regarding the large

outbreak in Hong Kong.

Following that, we received continuing reports

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