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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... disease . In fact some serious pandemics had emanated from Asia , for example the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century , 11 and the influenza pandemic of 1889-90 which gained the appellation of the ' Russian flu ' and that of ...
... disease. In the aftermath of both the First World War and the pandemic, closer attention was given to how to avoid a future deadly outbreak of influenza. Many states, including several within the British Empire, made flu a notifiable ...
... disease moved down the West African coast and from ports into the interior.16 For example, the Shango from Freetown took flu to Cape Coast and Accra by 3 September. Two weeks later the S.S. Bida, which had also called at Freetown ...
... disease , experienced 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 ...
... disease's virulency'; 26 nevertheless, the total death toll there in the southern summer of 1918–19 was 12,000. By contrast, New Zealand failed to protect itself or to prevent the spread of the pandemic to island communities in the ...
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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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