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To: Godzilla
Was the Swine Flu the same as the Hong Kong flu? I remember the Swine Flu but I seem to remember getting shots for the Hong Kong flu when I was a kid at about age 10 that would have been 1967.
2,839 posted on 10/14/2005 2:34:04 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier
Was the Swine Flu the same as the Hong Kong flu? I remember the Swine Flu but I seem to remember getting shots for the Hong Kong flu when I was a kid at about age 10 that would have been 1967.

No they are different. The Hong Kong flu was the last major world wide pandemic, IIRC.

2,850 posted on 10/14/2005 3:35:47 PM PDT by Godzilla (Peace through superior firepower.)
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