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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... suggesting how the imagination can comprehend and express them . Maybe we need this sort of feminised history for the flu epidemic , that widespread but brief moment of death , remembered by hundreds of thousands of grandmothers and ...
... suggested, although most evidence points to the former where the infection was first recognised in the mid West early in March of that year. From the United States influenza swept around the world in three waves and few areas escaped ...
... and 5 per cent of the population.17 In South Africa, the official death toll of c. 140,000 seriously underestimated African mortality. A recent revised figure suggests that the figure should be doubled.18 East Africa , already racked.
... suggests a low mortality rate well below 1 per cent , considerably lower than the figure for Japan , although given the conditions for avian flu in China it is difficult to understand why this should be so.20 Japan suffered during the ...
... suggested for this neglect of the pandemic by the historians of that era — that it was subsumed by the First World War , its very rapid passage and non - return , the hard - to - grasp magnitude of its toll which could not be credibly ...
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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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