Fig. 2: Rates of excess deaths caused by the Spanish Flu from 1918 to 1919. Excess death rates are computed as the number of excess deaths per expected deaths. Darker grays indicate higher excess deaths. The countries shaded diagonally participated in WW1. Full size image Fig. 3: Average ...
Severe sepsis remains an important cause of death, accounting for 9.3% of all deaths in the United States in 1995.1 If our understanding of the mechanisms of host response to stress has strongly progressed during the last 2 decades,2 the various drugs developed for specific targets of the cyt...