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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... morbidity and mortality rates ; and second , it was a new A virus subtype unrelated to previously known influenza viruses and thus not a mutation of a known virus . In its global reach it was wider than the Black Death , which was ...
... morbidity which means that, even with a relatively low mortality rate, the overall number of deaths is inevitably large. Attempts to identify a regular pattern in such outbreaks have not been successful. Pandemic influenza appears to ...
... morbidity and mortality figures are crude estimates . There are many gaps in Asia's epidemiological history of influenza , most notably for China where little research has been undertaken . lijima's recent research on influenza in China ...
... morbidity and mortality patterns, its effects on daily life, the medical and public health response it elicited and its economic impact — in ten Western hemisphere cities, in a bid to 'pull together some of the pieces of what is known ...
... morbidity in 1918 exist, in contrast to the reasonably reliable data on mortality for some countries. In order to understand the relative sparing of the elderly from the high mortality of the young adults, we must know whether fewer ...
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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 | |
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COMPILED BY JÜRGEN MÜLLER | |
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