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. from the virus, although patterns of mortality varied from one place to ... mortality. A recent revised figure suggests that the figure should be doubled.18 East Africa , already racked.
... mortality figures are crude estimates . There are many gaps in Asia's epidemiological history of influenza , most notably for China where little research has been undertaken . lijima's recent research on influenza in China in 1918-19 ...
... mortality figures seriously underestimate the toll , perhaps by as much as 100 per cent . — Discerning patterns in these mortality figures for example by age , gender , place of residence and occupation — has as a consequence allowed ...
... mortality pattern in one very remote locality. But such wide variations in mortality were not limited to out-of-the-way localities. Indeed, explaining this feature is another of the conundrums posed by the pandemic. In her chapter on ...
New Perspectives David Killingray, Howard Phillips. the very 25 Mortality from influenza is usually highest at both extremes of age — young and the elderly. The uniquely high mortality of influenza-pneumonia in young adults has remained ...
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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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