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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... quarantine measures had operated with some success since the mid nineteenth century , but they existed to control the spread of notifiable diseases such as bubonic plague and cholera , which were rightly perceived as major killers and ...
... quarantined; public transport, passengers and luggage were fumigated; public buildings — schools and cinemas, but rarely churches or bars — were closed; local legislation instructed people to wear masks and to avoid congregating ...
... quarantine, could not avoid infection. Australia imposed a strict maritime quarantine which possibly helped 'to dull the edge of the disease's virulency'; 26 nevertheless, the total death toll there in the southern summer of 1918–19 was ...
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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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