pandemicsstatesvirusesAttempts to understand global processes during and after pandemics will benefit from an analysis of historical examples. This work offers a brief review of the impact of various pandemics from about 400 BCE to the present by focusing on (1) states and state strength, (2) ...
In explaining the reason, Bryan Walsh in the article, ‘Covid-19: The history of pandemics’ states, “But when a virus – like the novel coronavirus – infects a host, that host becomes a cellular factory to manufacture more viruses.” It is by making us both victims and infectors ...
To address current challenges that hindered the progress made in prevention of childhood illnesses through vaccination campaigns and increased vaccine availability, lessons learned through best practices explored from past pandemics must be examined to mitigate impact of COVID-19 on childhood immunization ...
In 1800, Webster published a book entitled “A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases.” Associations between epidemics and pandemics and the countries from which they were alleged to have emerged have been regularly reported, some of which are false. For example, the 1889 “Chinese...
Continue Reading 2017- present: Pandemic and Cultural ChangeThe present period is currently defined by COVID-19, the pandemic that swept across the world in early 2020. COVID-19 was one of the fastest spreading and widespread pandemics since the Spanish flu mo... Continue Reading...
Somehow, summer race riots and pandemics seem to go together. In 1919, the flu pandemic wound down, after wiping out as much as 20 percent of the young adult population. Geoff Ward, a professor of African and African American studies at Washington University,explained how a pandemic inspires ...
pandemics paled in comparison to the Spanish Influenza of nearly a century earlier. These pandemics drew attention to the interconnection between humans and the etiological source of the pandemics in animal reservoirs; they spurred the implementation of the global control of such diseases by ...
pandemics and, most particularly, massive warfare (Scheidel,2017; Scheve and Stasavage,2012). The ‘Great Leveler’ argument is echoed by Thomas Piketty, who stresses how the two world wars resulted in a substantial reduction in wealth inequality through the nationalization of foreign assets, the ...
The 1918 flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the...
Influenza: historical aspects of epidemics and pandemics. Influenza is a zoonotic respiratory virus that affects birds, mammals, and humans. Influenza viruses are unique in their genetic instability, which frequen... Cunha,A Burke - 《Infectious Disease Clinics of North America》 被引量: 253发表:...