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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... France was a 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 ...
... France. Although the authorities took elementary precautions to isolate men infected with flu, they did not identify all the cases. Men deemed healthy entrained for home and the virus was spread with great rapidity throughout southern ...
... France, raises two other universal questions which, as noted earlier, have hardly been explored in any depth hitherto. To what extent did civilians in belligerent countries suffer greater mortality than soldiers in the pandemic because ...
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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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