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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... cent, while in Western Samoa the figure reached a horrifying 25 per cent. However, in the neighbouring US-administered islands of Eastern Samoa, where a tight naval quarantine was imposed, there may have been no deaths at all.28 In its ...
... cent of all post - 1924 works on the topic were published after 1975. The largest category of these has been local , regional or urban studies of the pandemic , especially in the USA . Typically , such works use a mixture of local ...
... cent . — Discerning patterns in these mortality figures for example by age , gender , place of residence and occupation — has as a consequence allowed better - defined questions to be posed about the pandemic's distinctive impact . In ...
... cent of the US population is estimated to have been infected. The disease was also exceptionally severe, with mortality rates among the infected over 2.5 per cent, compared to less than 0.1 per cent in other influenza epidemics.3 ...
... cent of excess deaths among people under 65 years of age5 (Figure 2.2). It has been estimated that the influenza epidemic of 1918 killed 675,000 Americans, including 43,000 servicemen mobilised for the First World War. 6 The impact was ...
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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 | |
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the Bombay experience | |
a preliminary probe | |
a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 | |
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