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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... mortality rate, the overall number of deaths is inevitably large. Attempts to identify a regular pattern in such outbreaks have not been successful. Pandemic influenza appears to originate in a single place; the location is not clear ...
... death rates were higher than those of Europe, varying between c.2 and 5 per cent of the population.17 In South Africa, the official death toll of c. 140,000 seriously underestimated African mortality. A recent revised figure suggests ...
... death rates from flu higher than other regions of Africa ; in Kenya as many as 150,000 people died , 5.5 per cent of the population . Popular responses to a disease which suddenly appeared killed so many and then disappeared took many ...
... mortality rates. The steamer, Tulane, left Auckland, New Zealand, with a clean bill of health but was a floating visitor of death to a succession of islands. The results were lethal; in Fiji c.b per cent of the population died, in Tonga ...
... death rate from influenza in 1918–19, it is surprising that the history of the outbreak is not better known. Several recent global histories of the twentieth century have either ignored the influenza pandemic altogether or given it but ...
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A virologists perspective on the 191819 pandemic | |
Genetic characterisation of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus | |
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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