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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... vaccines. Mridula Ramanna, MA (Delhi), PhD (Bombay), is reader in the Department of History at South Indian Education Society's College, University of Mumbai, India. Her Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay, 1845–1895 ...
... in spite of new anti - neuraminidase inhibitors , amantadine and influenza vaccines , we will eventually experience a 1918 scenario of our own . I hope not . A historian's foreword Terence Ranger The brevity of the influenza.
... vaccines were hastily developed for use against flu , but with little if any efficacy . At the time of the outbreak many rumours and theories about the origin and spread of the infection abounded . Inevitably the disease was associated ...
... vaccine , Philips - Duphar Nederland , presumably saw other marketing possibilities in the story of the 1918-19 pandemic . In 1968 it commissioned a Dutch journalist , A.C. de Gooijer , to write a popular account of the pandemic , to be ...
... vaccine had subsequently allowed influenza to be far more effectively countered.17 Nor , it would seem , was it unsuccessful in getting this message across , because in 1978 , in the aftermath of yet another international flu scare ...
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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 | |
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