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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... authorities, and died in the asylum.1 An accumulation of such private histories will eventually redeem the neglect of the pandemic in official public historiography. I was very grateful to be at the Cape Town conference where one could ...
... authorities predict that future pandemics will occur , but are unsure of when or the ability or will to implement measures to prevent the tragedies of the past ' . " As we stand at the beginning of the third millennium , there is a ...
... authorities took elementary precautions to isolate men infected with flu, they did not identify all the cases. Men deemed healthy entrained for home and the virus was spread with great rapidity throughout southern Africa and beyond the ...
... authorities argue that many of the diseases of the central nervous system may follow bouts of severe influenza and are closely related to the disease.29 What occurred in 1918–19, we are repeatedly told by virologists and epidemiologists ...
... authorities and by the global influenza intelligence community in 1997 when that colony experienced an outbreak of flu in its chicken population. Prompt action may have averted a serious outbreak of influenza.31 In 1918 influenza ...
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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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