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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... Young. Wataru Iijima is professor in the Department of Economics, Yokohama National University, Japan. He has studied the prevalence of bubonic plague and the development of a public health system in modern China, and his book entitled ...
... young people travelled together in such over-crowded circumstances. But they had survived the war and were looking forward to family reunion parties, village gatherings and victory marches. From the point of view of a minuscule virus ...
... young soldiers with high mortality and caused heliotrope cyanosis , a clinical hallmark of the 1918 outbreak . Vera Brittain described in her book Testament of Youth the horror of the overcrowded camp at Etaples with 100,000 soldiers ...
... young and the elderly. Flu is not generally deemed to be a killer disease and thus has rarely been a notifiable disease. Occasionally, for example 1889–90, 1957–8, 1968–9 and 1977–8, a much more virulent flu virus appears, such as the A ...
... young and elderly , there was no guarantee even when it came in a particularly virulent form and killed large numbers of people , that it would make a special mark in the history books.34 The historiography of the 1918–19 influenza ...
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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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