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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... antigens as H2N2 and H3N2. The likelihood that the pandemic of 1918 was caused by a similar infectious agent is strengthened by seroarchaeologic evidence that persons exposed to and presumably infected by the 1918 virus have antibodies ...
... antigens to create a virus which differs so markedly from those previously encountered in human experience that people of all ages become susceptible; 2. other changes that influence the intrinsic virulence of the virus are suspected ...
... Although vaccine-induced immunity to influenza A virus is continually challenged by progressively selected mutations in the virus's major antigens, (antigenic drift), virus strains within a subtype (e.g. H1N1 ) are antigenically.
... antigens of the 1943 and 1947 viruses with analysis of their nucleotide and amino acid sequences and have found marked antigenic and amino acid differences in viruses of the two periods. Furthermore, in a mouse model, vaccination with ...
... antigens, thus confronting the world's population with an essentially novel virus to which it had no immunity. This epidemic was important in demonstrating that a 'modern' influenza virus could cause pandemic disease and fatal viral ...
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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 | |
Bibliography | |
COMPILED BY JÜRGEN MÜLLER | |
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