The Wuhan coronavirus fatality rate (致死率) is lower than for SARS and MERS, but stillcomparable (相当) to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic (大流行病). The fatality rate is likely to be lower due to an "iceberg" of milder cases we are yet to find.武汉冠状病毒死亡率低于SARS和MERS，但仍...
The Wuhan coronavirus fatality rate (致死率) is lower than for SARS and MERS, but stillcomparable (相当) to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic (大流行病). The fatality rate is likely to be lower due to an "iceberg" of milder cases we are yet to find. 武汉冠状病毒死亡率低于SARS和MERS,但仍...
What is the Risk of Bird Flu Mutating into a Form Communicable Between Humans? Discussion Comments Byanon1002911— On Mar 17, 2020 This was very helpful on my project. Thanks. Byanon1002887— On Mar 10, 2020 This was very helpful and had some good information. ...
(1) 1918-1919 "Spanish Flu": The flu pandemic first originated at Camp Funston, Kansas, USA. A soldier here felt a fever, a sore throat and a headache, and went to see a doctor at the army hospital, who believed he had a common cold. However, more than 100 soldiers in the barrac...
Pandemic vs. epidemic An epidemic is when a virus spreads more than expected in a certain place. For example, the flu (influenza virus) spreads each winter in the U.S., but some years, it infects more people and causes more sickness and deaths than usual. ...
doi:10.20955/es.2020.30COVID-19As the Spanish flu became more widespread and its dangers apparent, many cities sought to contain the virus by imposing restrictions on social and economic inteSocial Science Electronic Publishing
Pandemic Respiratory infection Spanish flu Vaccination Viral infection What Is Influenza? The respiratory infection influenza, commonly known as the flu, causes symptoms that include fever, muscle aches, sore throat, and a cough. Once inhaled, flu germs quickly multiply and take over healthy ce...
The use of convalescent plasma in medicine is nothing new. In fact, one of our company’s founders, Emil von Behring, won the first Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901 for using convalescent plasma to treat diphtheria. During the 1918 “Spanish Flu” pandemic,studies foundthat convalescent plasma...
Early reports on COVID-19 compared what was developing to the “Spanish Flu”, an influenza pandemic(流感大流行)just over 100 years earlier. And yet, I grew up never having heard my parents speak of it or their experiences!I had questions about it, but no answers since my parents are ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is an example of a gray swan. Pandemics are a rare but well-acknowledged risk that the world has experienced repeatedly in the past, from the Justinian plague to the Black Death and the Spanish flu. Though the risk of a pandemic in any given year is estimated to ...