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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... outbreak of infectious disease that the world has ever known. But even so, it has to be appreciated that 95 per cent of the world survived, including my own father. But why, with 30 or more million deaths, has knowledge about the ...
... outbreak at Etaples in northern France in the winter of 1916 , and later that year in Aldershot barracks . These wintertime outbreaks of bronchitis or ' epidemic catarrh ' struck at young soldiers with high mortality and caused ...
... outbreak of 1918-19 was pandemic for two reasons : first of all the infection began in a single place and spread throughout the world resulting in very high morbidity and mortality rates ; and second , it was a new A virus subtype ...
... outbreaks of influenza occurred before 1918. The outbreak in England in the 1550s was particularly serious and historians continue to debate the extent to which England's population fell as a result of poor harvests followed by epidemic ...
... outbreaks have not been successful. Pandemic influenza appears to originate in a single place; the location is not clear but it is commonly within a large land mass such as Russia, North America or China. Flu has a short incubation ...
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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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