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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 (Robbie Readers)

August 19, 2010

In 1918, the deadliest virus in human history struck worldwide with hardly any warning. A victim of the Spanish flu could wake up healthy and fall down dead the same day. In the United States, so many people fell ill that schools and churches closed. There weren t enough healthy doctors and nurses to care [...]

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Influenza Pandemics: Past and Future

August 11, 2010

In this University of Michigan program, Peter Palese, professor of microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, takes a historical examination into the influenza. Science has made it possible to reconstruct the virus that caused the great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. The virus, which killed 50 million people worldwide, can be used to test current [...]

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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 (Great Disasters and Their

July 17, 2010

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 (Great Disasters and Their Reforms)

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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (Great Historic Disasters)

July 12, 2010

In late January 1918, Dr. Loren Miner, a country physician in rural Kansas, saw the first cases of an influenza of a violent nature. With a warning to the U.S. Public Health Service, his was the lone voice of alarm about the potential spread of this virulent new strain of a particularly deadly disease. With [...]

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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19: New Perspectives

July 9, 2010

The Spanish Flu pandemic killed 30-50 million people in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and is lodged in the popular memory of that generation. The chapters in this book have been structured around five main themes to explore the medical and societal ramifications of this disease: the virology of the pandemic, medical [...]

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Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the

June 30, 2010

When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated 40 million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the U.S. population with it, 1.5 million Americans would die. In [...]

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Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg

June 18, 2010

The influenza pandemic of 1918?1919 killed as many as fifty million people worldwide and affected the vast majority of Canadians. Yet the pandemic, which came and left in one season, never to recur in any significant way, has remained difficult to interpret. What did it mean to live through and beyond this brief, terrible episode, [...]

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