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 adults, why was the mortality so variable geographically, and what were the long-term consequences of the toll for national population structures? For all this trailblazing, the list of topics above simultaneously.
... child in the United States', in the words of President Gerald Ford.16 More than 40 ... young Originating in mainland China, but recognised and reported first in ... adults who had not had previous exposure to its antigens in the earlier ...
... young and the elderly. The uniquely high mortality of influenza-pneumonia in young adults has remained a puzzling feature of the 1918 pandemic. Based on evidence that yet another H1N1 virus circulated in the period 1908–18, I ...
... young adults, we must know whether fewer elderly were infected or fewer had severe disease. Regional historical and even anecdotal data can inform us on this point and in turn direct our scientific inquiries. 2 Genetic characterisation ...
... young healthy adults. The virus responsible for this catastrophe was not isolated at the time, and perhaps the most lethal infectious agent of all time was seemingly lost for study. The search for the agent responsible for the pandemic ...
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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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