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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... human populations, regularly killing a small number of vulnerable people, usually the very young and the elderly. Flu is not generally deemed to be a killer disease and thus has rarely been a notifiable disease. Occasionally, for ...
... human catastrophe . Publication of such a work soon after a new influenza epidemic had abated held with it the prospect of good sales to a general public whose awareness of the disease had been temporarily raised . From another angle ...
... human experience . However , whereas other popular works with this intention relied largely on the press of the time , Collier drew as well on the personal memories of over 1,700 flu survivors , collected by a large research team around ...
... human influenza was first identified in 1933. In the subsequent modern virological period, pandemics have occurred in 1957 and 1968, associated with the introduction, probably from animal or avian sources, of markedly different strains ...
... human experience that people of all ages become susceptible; 2. other changes that influence the intrinsic virulence of the virus are suspected, but as yet unproven, although it has been found in animal influenza that virulence4 or host ...
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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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COMPILED BY JÜRGEN MÜLLER | |
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