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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... recorded by historians in no way reduces the historical significance of the disease and its impact . Epidemic outbreaks of influenza occurred before 1918. The outbreak in England in the 1550s was particularly serious and historians ...
... recorded as due to other causes. In central and eastern Europe many people were weakened by the long effects of the war and thus more susceptible to diseases, including influenza. All armies, especially those confronting each other on ...
... recorded for North America , and a few areas of South America , is that mortality rates from flu among aboriginal peoples were very high , sweeping through Inuit communities in northern Canada and Alaska , and other Native American ...
... recorded influenza pandemics, was the high incidence of death universally among those aged between 20–40 years, particularly men, the very group that might be thought to be stronger and thus less likely to succumb to influenza. This 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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