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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New Perspectives David Killingray, Howard Phillips. antigens — were very different from those of human viruses previously encountered. Most of the population, immunised only by exposure to the H1N1 group of viruses, had no immunity to ...
... antigens in the earlier decade. It was noteworthy that the appearance of this H1N1 influenza A virus subtype was not followed by the disappearance of the prevalent subtype as had been seen following the introduction of new subtypes in ...
New Perspectives David Killingray, Howard Phillips. antigens, was unexpectedly soon. Earlier circulation of H2 and H3 antigens had preceded their reappearance in 1957 and 1968 by some 60 to 70 years. The pandemic threats of 1997 and 1999 ...
... antigens from animal sources. 21 The degree of virus change associated with classical pandemics cannot be explained as the result of the gradual, sequential point mutations that account for the annual, relatively minor antigenic changes ...
... antigens change; degree of difference from immediately antecedent virus, bOpportunity provided for recombination of animal and human strains and 'capture' of alien animal virus antigens. cTransmissibility and virulence are not ...
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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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