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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... wave in Spain 11.4 Second epidemic wave in Spain 11.5 Third epidemic wave in Spain 11.6 Cause - specific mortality from influenza in Spain , by age and sex , 1917 and 1918 12.1 Precautionary measures against influenza advised in Nancy ...
... wave of global influenza. My own father came back from the Western Front that autumn and whilst he only had to travel across the Channel to home and, he thought to safety, many other soldiers filled liners and cargo ships to overflowing ...
... wave of infection and respiratory death which no one on the planet would want to live through again , and second , as virologists , we do expect another influenza pandemic to visit and , in our most pessimistic moments wonder whether ...
... and few areas escaped its malignant effect. The first wave in March and April 1918 spread rapidly to war-ravaged Europe and then on to Asia and North Africa, before reaching Australia by July . The mortality rate was fairly.
... wave occurred in late August 1918 and re - appeared as a third and less virulent wave in 1919. The virus spread rapidly along the conduits of war and commerce to engulf the entire world in a matter of a few weeks . A modern system of ...
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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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COMPILED BY JÜRGEN MÜLLER | |
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