[An overview on the history of global influenza pandemics].

During the past 100 years, there had been four global pandemics on influenza that had greatly influenced the health and life of the people. This article summarized the features, experiences and lessons learned on these four influenza pandemics so as to prepare related measures targeting the possible pandemics/epidemics in the foreseeable future, in China.在过去的100年里，共暴发过4次全球范围内的流感大流行，极大地危害和影响了全球人类健康和社会秩序。本文对历史上4次流感大流行的特征及当时采取的防控措施进行回顾和总结，期望从中获得一些经验或吸取教训，用于提升我国现阶段流感大流行应对准备能力，以从容应对可能到来的下一次流感大流行。.