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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... strains of diseases , such as tuberculosis , which threaten to thwart well - tried antidotes ; and second , the outbreak of a disease such as HIV / AIDS for which there is as yet no known cure . HIV / AIDS has spread at an alarming rate ...
... strains of the influenza A virus, known by their surface antigens as H2N2 and H3N2. The likelihood that the pandemic of 1918 was caused by a similar infectious agent is strengthened by seroarchaeologic evidence that persons exposed to ...
... 1947 Although vaccine-induced immunity to influenza A virus is continually challenged by progressively selected mutations in the virus's major antigens, (antigenic drift), virus strains within a subtype (e.g. H1N1 ) are antigenically.
New Perspectives David Killingray, Howard Phillips. virus strains within a subtype (e.g. H1N1 ) are antigenically cross-reactive. Cross- immunity diminishes as further mutations accumulate, necessitating frequent changes in vaccine strains ...
... strains and 'capture' of alien animal virus antigens. cTransmissibility and virulence are not necessarily correlated. dIntrinsic to the virus but can be influenced by host and environmental factors, as shown. It may be significant that ...
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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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