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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... young flu victims and preserved in formalin / paraffin or Arctic permafrost since then . These samples his team , at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington , have subjected to the latest biotechnological genetic ...
... young adults, why was the mortality so variable geographically, and what were the long-term consequences of the toll for national population structures? For all this trailblazing, the list of topics above simultaneously.
... young Originating in mainland China, but recognised and reported first in the Soviet Union, a virus very similar to those circulating in the 1947-56 period emerged and spread rapidly throughout the world, but not as a true pandemic ...
... young. Elsewhere, I have proposed that the H1N1 subtype viruses may in fact be, in the computer sense, the 'default' human viruses. 23 Indeed, included in the H1N1 group is the putative agent of 1918. Table 1.1 Determinants of influenza ...
... young and the elderly. The uniquely high mortality of influenza-pneumonia in young adults has remained a puzzling feature of the 1918 pandemic. Based on evidence that yet another H1N1 virus circulated in the period 1908–18, I ...
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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 | |
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