The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: New PerspectivesThe 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. On a global, multidisciplinary scale, the book seeks to apply the insights of a wide range of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic. Topics covered include the historiography of the pandemic, its virology, the enormous demographic impact, the medical and governmental responses it elicited, and its long-term effects, particularly the recent attempts to identify the precise causative virus from specimens taken from flu victims in 1918, or victims buried in the Arctic permafrost at that time. |
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He is Scientific Director of Retroscreen Virology Ltd (www.retroscreen.com), a virology biotechnology company at the College focusing on the search for new antivirals and vaccines. Mridula Ramanna, MA (Delhi), PhD (Bombay), ...
He is Scientific Director of Retroscreen Virology Ltd (www.retroscreen.com), a virology biotechnology company at the College focusing on the search for new antivirals and vaccines. Mridula Ramanna, MA (Delhi), PhD (Bombay), ...
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... 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.
... 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.
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... of swine influenza.10 In 1918–19 many 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.
... of swine influenza.10 In 1918–19 many 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.
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From another angle, at least one pharmaceutical company involved in the manufacture of anti-flu vaccine, Philips-Duphar Nederland, presumably saw other marketing possibilities in the story of the 1918–19 pandemic.
From another angle, at least one pharmaceutical company involved in the manufacture of anti-flu vaccine, Philips-Duphar Nederland, presumably saw other marketing possibilities in the story of the 1918–19 pandemic.
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... after graphic descriptions of the pandemic's passage through Holland and Switzerland in 1918, how the development of anti-flu vaccine had subsequently allowed influenza to be far more effectively countered.47 Nor, it would seem, ...
... after graphic descriptions of the pandemic's passage through Holland and Switzerland in 1918, how the development of anti-flu vaccine had subsequently allowed influenza to be far more effectively countered.47 Nor, it would seem, ...
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Genetic characterisation of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus | |
German medicine and | |
doctors nurses and the power | |
the Bombay experience | |
a preliminary probe | |
Spanish flu in the Canadian subarctic | |
Spanish influenza seen from Spain | |
the Great War and the 1918 Spanish influenza | |
Longterm effects of the 1918 Spanishinfluenza epidemic on | |
memory and the 1918 influenza epidemic | |
epidemiologic | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 | |
influenza in Britain in 191819 | |
COMPILED BY JÜRGEN MÜLLER | |
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| Titlu | The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: New Perspectives Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine |
| Editori | David Killingray, Howard Phillips |
| Editor | Routledge, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1134566409, 9781134566402 |
| Lungime | 384 pagini |
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