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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... Asian land mass was not immune from the virus, although civil war and revolution, and raging typhus, meant that little attention was given to influenza. The movement of refugees undoubtedly helped to exacerbate the transmission of.
... 1947 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.
... immunity diminishes as further mutations accumulate, necessitating frequent changes in vaccine strains, although older vaccines are usually partially protective. The post-war epidemic of 1947 is notable for the total failure of a ...
... immunity. This epidemic was important in demonstrating that a 'modern' influenza virus could cause pandemic disease and fatal viral pneumonia reminiscent of 1918. Completely replaced all H1N1 subtype viruses. 1968 — in the 'Hong Kong ...
... immunity to the new H2N2 'Asian' virus. For this reason, pandemic spread occurred with lethal outcome in some patients, amongst whom the disease was indistinguishable from that seen in 1918. Three remarkable observations were made ...
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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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