Spanish Flu (1918 influenza pandemic, the flu epidemic of 1918) The 1918 flu pandemic (the "Spanish flu") was one of the famous influenza pandemics in history. It was an unusually deadly and severe pandemic that spread across the world. This influenza pandemic was caused by a vicious Influe...
The Pandemic of the Spanish Influenza in Colonial Korea.demographictransitionGovernment-GeneralofKoreapolicehygienesystemThe present study sheds light on the structural aspect of disease and death in colonial Korea by examining the whole picture of the Spanish influenza, which was pandemic during 1918-...
It was discovered that the Spanish Flu is just another variation of the H1N1, the most common form of the flu found today. As the world becomes more and more overpopulated, so does the risk of apandemic. When you combine this with the ever-increasing globalization of the world, you’re ...
Origins of the Spanish influenza pandemic (1918-1920) and its relations to the First World War. Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine, v.3, n.2, p.190-194. 2009.Anton Erkoreka."Origins of the Spanish Influenza pandemic(1918-1920) and its relation to the First World War,".Journal ...
influenza in just 8 months[1]. The virus causing theinfluenza pandemicwas not isolated at the time. By the characteristic symptoms and epidemiology of the disease, contemporary observers identified the disease with influenza outbreaks of the past. However, its enhanced severity, its multiple waves ...
In September 1918, the influenza pandemic spread with tremendous virulence, presenting itself simultaneously during the month of October in South Western European countries. In Madrid, the 1918 excess mortality due in large part to the influenza pandemic is estimated at 5·27 per 1000. In Paris, ...
similar isolationist sentiments during the debates we read, not all of which of course explicitly stated the impact of the pandemic on their thinking, provides some backing for the idea that the protectionist thinking of contemporaries might have been influenced by the experience of the influenza ...
The 1918 influenza pandemic did not, as many people believed, originate in Spain. Read more Read more A flu pandemic, such as the one in 1918, occurs when an especially virulent new influenza strain for which there’s little or no immunity appears and spreads quickly from person to person ...
1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Spanish influenza killed millions Every year, H1N1 fluvirusesmake people sick. Even the garden-variety flu can be deadly, but usually only for the very young or very old. In 1918, however, the flu mutated into something much more virulent....
Edwin D. Kilbourne A Virologist's Perspective on the 1918-1919 Pandemic 2. Jeffery K. Taubenberger Genetic Characterisation of the 1918 'Spanish' Influenza Virus Part II: Contemporary Medical and Nursing Perspectives 3. Wilfried Witte The Plague That was Not Allowed to Happen: German Medicine ...