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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... relatively non-lethal pandemic of 1947 and the unequivocal pandemics of 1957 and 1968 seemed to set a roughly decennial pattern 15 It was of recurrence that was a cause for concern towards the close of the 1970s. not surprising, then ...
... relatively frequent events that are now emerging to notice because of enhanced surveillance. Determinants of influenza virus pandemicity Although influenza pandemics of the more recent past have characteristics in common, one is struck ...
... relatively minor antigenic changes (or 'drift') of influenza viruses.22 However, it must be kept in mind that global distribution of a 'drifting' H1N1 virus successfully challenged (then) current vaccines and occurred in 1947 as a mild ...
... relatively lower mortality of the elderly is less easy to explain unless they were relatively immune to the secondary bacterial invaders that co- infected most young recruits. That the 1918 virus was uniquely virulent would seem to be ...
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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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