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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... spread of the 1918 pandemic virus and he participated in the Spitsbergen exhumations of victims. He is Scientific Director of Retroscreen Virology Ltd (www.retroscreen.com), a virology biotechnology company at the College focusing on ...
... spread of infectious diseases. She has studied the spread of hepatitis A among Albuquerque, New Mexico day care centres, the spread of measles within the West Indian island of Dominica, and the effect of non-random interactions among ...
... spread from person to person in droplets from coughs, this was an unprecedented and gloriously unique opportunity — influenza took it. Throughout history, at least after the Ice Age, where there were larger townships and gatherings ...
... spread of plague to other villages. Being already infected, they cut themselves off from other families to stop the spread.
... spread and helped each other . There must have been many more acts of heroism in homes of the world in the Great Pandemic than in the Great War as husbands and wives and families strained to cope with the disease . Indeed , many ...
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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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