How did the Spanish-American War affect the U.S. economy? How did different societies around the world respond to the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919? How did the bubonic plague affect Europe? How did the Russian flu spread? How did the Spanish Civil War provide a warning for how destructi...
When was the flu vaccine invented? Where was the first outbreak of Legionnaires disease? Where did chikungunya originate? Where did smallpox come from? Did the Spanish flu help drive immunizations? When was the swine flu epidemic? What stopped the 1918 flu epidemic?
Edwin D. Kilbourne, a flu vaccine expert, said in a 2006 study. By the end of 1920, the virus had spread across the globe, even infecting people on remote islands of the Pacific Ocean and rural Alaska. And, still, a century later, scientists not only question the outbreak's origin ...
"But we have a lot more people and a lot more mobility... The fear is eventually a new strain gets around a particular vaccine target." Worldwide, COVID-19 has killed 4.6 million people. About 43% of the global population has received at least one dose, according t...
So far, few studies have analyzed the effect of political preferences on parental vaccine hesitancy/refusal. One notable exception is the work by Ruiz & Bell [16] that shows greater vaccine hesitancy among Republican parents or guardians, in line with the anti-vaccination stance of former ...
Why did the "Spanish Flu" of 1918 qualify as a pandemic? Describe the flu vaccine and how it can be used to prevent the illness. How has plague been controlled? When was the last U.S. outbreak? What are the forms of plague? The 1918 pandemic influenza virus is said to h...
Second because of the asinine headlong mad rush to have everybody vaccinatedbeforethey had beenofficiallytested. If you don’t first document whether a person had covid antibodies, you don’t know whether to ascribe the creation of those antibodies to the vaccine or prior infection. ...
That year, two soldiers at Fort Dix came down with the flu, and one of the men died. Fearing another deadly epidemic, the government announced plans to vaccinate the entire country. However, the disease never spread beyond Fort Dix, and the vaccine, which was never explained well to the ...
But this “encapsulation” is OFF the point: Historically speaking, the distinction between “vaccination” (generic term) and “vaccination” (as in THE VAC) have been blurred, often with drastic consequences. The Poliomyelitis vaccine is a case in point: Dr. J...
Even as federal money was flowing into vaccine development, government scientists were starting to see a problem: The H1N1 virus was taking longer to grow in eggs — the method of producing a mutated version of the virus for a vaccine — than the seasonal flu. ...