The human toll from SARS, about 900 deaths, though tragic, was a pinprick compared with the Spanish influenza at the end of World War I, when as many as 100 million died.

• 尽管很不幸的是，非典造成了约900人死亡，但是与第一次世界大战结束时西班牙流感横行导致了多达100万人死亡相比，非典造成的人身伤亡只是微乎其微。