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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... prevent the tragedies of the past ' . " As we stand at the beginning of the third millennium , there is a heightened consciousness about potentially pandemic diseases for two main reasons : first , the mutation of new strains of ...
... prevent the further spread of the pandemic. Ports were quarantined; public transport, passengers and luggage were fumigated; public buildings — schools and cinemas, but rarely churches or bars — were closed; local legislation instructed ...
... prevent the spread of the pandemic to island communities in the South Pacific. As the disease moved through New Zealand in November–December 1918 it killed more Maori than Pakehas (White Men). 27 The flu entered the Pacific from the ...
... prevent a recurrence of similar proportions . As the British Ministry of Health's comprehensive , multi - authored survey of the pandemic's course and toll around the world put it in 1920 : There can be no doubt that as an historical ...
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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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