The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: New PerspectivesDavid Killingray, Howard Phillips Routledge, 2 sept. 2003 - 380 pagini The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with its ravages. It left millions orphaned and medical science desperate to find its cause. Despite the magnitude of its impact, few scholarly attempts have been made to examine this calamity in its many-sided complexity. |
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... .40 Seven years later a similar epidemiological overview , this time undertaken for the American Medical Association by a Chicago University bacteriologist , E.O. Jordan, devoted nearly half of its 512 pages to spelling.
... Association award for the Best Book on a Medical Subject for Laymen — Crosby set on foot this scholarly inquiry, balancing his rich qualitative and quantitative data as he followed the pandemic's course and noted the immediate responses ...
... shown. Specific death rate is per 100,000 of the population for each age division. Key: 1918 pandemic (solid line), average of interpandemic years 1911–17 (dashed line). The avian association with the 1918 flu has also not.
New Perspectives David Killingray, Howard Phillips. The avian association with the 1918 flu has also not been determined.10 The natural reservoir for influenza virus is thought to be wild waterfowl.11 Periodically, genetic material from ...
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German medicine and | |
doctors nurses and the power | |
perspectives on official responses and crisis management | |
influenza in Britain in 191819 | |
Spanish flu in the Canadian subarctic | |
Spanish influenza seen from Spain | |
the Great War and the 1918 Spanish influenza | |
Longterm effects of the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic on | |
memory and the 1918 influenza epidemic | |
epidemiologic | |
Notes | |
the Bombay experience | |
a preliminary probe | |
a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 | |
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COMPILED BY JÜRGEN MÜLLER | |
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