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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... Boxes 1.1 Major influenza epidemics or pandemic threats since 1918 1.2 What determinants of influenza virus pandemicity were operative in 1918 ? TABLES 1.1 Determinants of influenza virus pandemicity 7.1 Spanish influenza.
... major research area is the origin and spread of the 1918 pandemic virus and he participated in the Spitsbergen exhumations of victims. He is Scientific Director of Retroscreen Virology Ltd (www.retroscreen.com), a virology biotechnology ...
... major Atlantic harbour receiving a steady flow of US troops of the American Expeditionary Force, eventually totalling over 790,000 men, bound for the Western Front. By 22 August the second wave of flu had arrived in the town to move ...
... Major cities suffered unevenly , for example Philadelphia had higher mortality rates than New York , much to the bewilderment of public health officials and later medical researchers . Some 675,000 Americans died in the pandemic and ...
... was often the sole or major bread-winner, to stop working. The poor, and those living in over-crowded and insanitary conditions, were also more likely to catch and to die from the virus, although patterns of mortality varied from one.
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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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