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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... influenza in China in 1918-19 suggests a low mortality rate well below 1 per cent , considerably lower than the figure for Japan , although given the conditions for avian flu in China it is difficult to understand why this should be so ...
... influenza was first identified in 1933. In the subsequent modern virological period, pandemics have occurred in 1957 and 1968, associated with the introduction, probably from animal or avian sources, of markedly different strains of the ...
... avian influenza in Hong Kong with sixteen proved infections of humans and six fatalities. Perhaps due to mass destruction of chickens suspected to be the source, the epidemic ceased. 1999 — H9N2 avian virus appeared early in the year ...
... avian species.14 This third observation suggested the possible derivation of perhaps all human influenza pandemics from animal sources. The 'Hong Kong' pandemic of 1968 — a periodicity of pandemics appeared to be emerging Taken together ...
... avian influenza virus in Hong Kong The occurrence in 1997 of sixteen cases of human influenza caused by an avian influenza virus in Hong Kong is reminiscent of the situation when a swine influenza virus infected recruits at Fort Dix in ...
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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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