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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... disease and thus has rarely been a notifiable disease. Occasionally, for example 1889–90, 1957–8, 1968–9 and 1977–8, a much more virulent flu virus appears, such as the A virus of 1918, resulting in extremely high levels of morbidity ...
... disease and had no effective way of combating or curing it . Since the 1890s it had been believed that influenza was caused by a bacillus , identified as Pfeiffer's bacillus . Little was then known about viruses and much of the research ...
... diseases, including influenza. All armies, especially those confronting each other on the Western Front, were also hard hit by the disease. In Britain the mortality figures exceeded 200,000; 13 the number of dead in France was slightly ...
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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 | |
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the Bombay experience | |
a preliminary probe | |
a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 | |
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