Rise of obesity and diabetes could exacerbate future flu pandemics
[The Telegraph]
Sarah Newey
,The Telegraph•October 8, 2018
The growth in rates of obesity and diabetes and the threat of antibiotic resistance could turn even a mild flu outbreak into a severe one, scientists have warned.
Scientists looked at what led to the 1918 Spanish flu, which spread rapidly around the globe as the First World War drew to a close, infecting a third of the world’s population and causing between 50 and 100 million deaths.
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