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Author : Ross County (Ohio) Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Camp Sherman Influenza Epidemic, 1918 written by Ross County (Ohio) Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rami Yoakum
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781615826315
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Chillicothe, Camp Sherman and the Spanish Flu written by Rami Yoakum and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one was prepared when the Spanish flu struck in the fall of 1918, but how could they have been? It sickened and killed record numbers of people in the United States and around the world. Chillicothe, Ohio, was one small town facing the killer epidemic. Adding to the resident's burden was Camp Sherman, a World War I training facility located on the outskirts of their city, where some 11,000 men would fall ill and more than 1,000 would die. This is the story of the people of Chillicothe and the doctors and nurses at the Base Hospital, who faced a nightmare almost beyond description. Together they did their best to make it through the nightmare of bloody sheets, devastated families and dead bodies too numerous to process. A genealogist's dream, Chillicothe, Camp Sherman and the Spanish Flu: The Making of Blood Alley also contains the names of those who succumbed to the Spanish Lady.
Author : E.L. Helton
Publisher : Jeffrey Frank Jones
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The 1918 Pandemic Influenza In Text And Images written by E.L. Helton and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on 2020-03-29 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS By CHAPTER: Text: 1918 Pandemic Influenza Historic Timeline Photographs Newspapers: Early Warnings Newspapers: Indiana Clippings Text: The Deadliest Flu: The Complete Story of the Discovery Text: The Influenza Pandemic Of 1918 Text: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 at Camp Sherman Journal Article: 1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics Text: Influenza of 1918 (Spanish Flu) and the US Navy Text: A Forgotten Enemy: PHS's [Public Health Service] Fight Against the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Text: Worldwide flu out break killed 45,000 American Soldiers during World War I Text: Old Selfridge Newspaper Highlights Sweethearts, Flu, War Training Text: Pandemic Influenza Storybook - I Survived Text: Pandemic Influenza Storybook - Plantings Text: Pandemic Influenza Storybook - An Immigrant's Tale Text: Pandemic Influenza Storybook - In Memorial Text: Pandemic Influenza Storybook - Finding A Cure Text: Pandemic Influenza Storybook - War Stories Text: Century After Pandemic, Science Takes Its Best Shot at Flu Text: 1918 Spanish Flu Holds Clues to Future Pandemics Text: Scientists Study Old Virus to Predict Impact of Avian Flu Pandemic Text: Doctor Reveals Origin of SARS Pandemic Text: All the City Was Dying Text: How Many Words is a Picture Worth? Text: Using Primary Sources INTRODUCTION Background The 100-year anniversary of the 1918 pandemic and the 10- year anniversary of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic are milestones that provide an opportunity to reflect on the groundbreaking work that led to the discovery, sequencing and reconstruction of the 1918 pandemic flu virus. This collaborative effort advanced understanding of the deadliest flu pandemic in modern history and has helped the global public health community prepare for contemporary pandemics, such as 2009 H1N1, as well as future pandemic threats. The 1918 H1N1 flu pandemic, sometimes referred to as the “Spanish flu,” killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 people in the United States.1,2,3,4 An unusual characteristic of this virus was the high death rate it caused among healthy adults 15 to 34 years of age.3 The pandemic lowered the average life expectancy in the United States by more than 12 years.3 A comparable death rate has not been observed during any of the known flu seasons or pandemics that have occurred either prior to or following the 1918 pandemic.3 The virus’ unique severity puzzled researchers for decades, and prompted several questions, such as “Why was the 1918 virus so deadly?”, “Where did the virus originate from?”, and “What can the public health community learn from the 1918 virus to better prepare for and defend against future pandemics?
Author : Kristin Marciniak
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1617839566
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Flu Pandemic of 1918 written by Kristin Marciniak and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the globe, devastating disasters have changed the course of history. This title brings the flu pandemic of 1918 to life with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Explore the tragedies and triumphs of this disaster, how it helped shape the world as we know it, and how what we?ve learned from it has made the world a safer place. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Author : Gina Kolata
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429979356
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Flu written by Gina Kolata and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. And no area of the globe was safe. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, Kolata addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.
Author : David Getz
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805057515
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Purple Death written by David Getz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated overview of the onset, progress, and effects of the flu epidemic of 1918, which resulted in the deaths of more than half a million people
Author : Albert Marrin
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1101931469
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Very, Very, Very Dreadful written by Albert Marrin and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic--and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the worst that has ever afflicted humankind; not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages comes close in terms of the number of lives it took. No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, about 500 million people--one-third of the global population at the time--came down with influenza. The exact total of lives lost will never be known, but the best estimate is between 50 and 100 million. In this powerful book, filled with black and white photographs, nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines the history, science, and impact of this great scourge--and the possibility for another worldwide pandemic today. A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year!
Author : Claire O'Neal
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 1545749566
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (457 download)
Download or read book The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 written by Claire O'Neal and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 werent enough healthy doctors and nurses to care for the sick, or enough healthy gravediggers to bury the dead. When U.S. troops joined World War I that year, they couldnt have imagined that more soldiers would die from the flu than fighting. The Spanish flu claimed between 50 million and 100 million lives globally in less than a year. Now, less than a century later, new strains of bird flu are killing people in Asia in much the same way. Are we on the verge of another deadly pandemic?
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309095042
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Threat of Pandemic Influenza written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-04-09 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability to prevent or contain a human pandemic. The workshop summary, The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? addresses these urgent concerns. The report describes what steps the United States and other countries have taken thus far to prepare for the next outbreak of "killer flu." It also looks at gaps in readiness, including hospitals' inability to absorb a surge of patients and many nations' incapacity to monitor and detect flu outbreaks. The report points to the need for international agreements to share flu vaccine and antiviral stockpiles to ensure that the 88 percent of nations that cannot manufacture or stockpile these products have access to them. It chronicles the toll of the H5N1 strain of avian flu currently circulating among poultry in many parts of Asia, which now accounts for the culling of millions of birds and the death of at least 50 persons. And it compares the costs of preparations with the costs of illness and death that could arise during an outbreak.
Author : David Killingray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134566409
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 written by David Killingray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with its ravages. It left millions orphaned and medical science desperate to find its cause. Despite the magnitude of its impact, few scholarly attempts have been made to examine this calamity in its many-sided complexity. On a global, multidisciplinary scale, the book seeks to apply the insights of a wide range of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic. Topics covered include the historiography of the pandemic, its virology, the enormous demographic impact, the medical and governmental responses it elicited, and its long-term effects, particularly the recent attempts to identify the precise causative virus from specimens taken from flu victims in 1918, or victims buried in the Arctic permafrost at that time.
Author : Sandra Opdycke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135133522
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Flu Epidemic of 1918 written by Sandra Opdycke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, a devastating world-wide influenza epidemic hit the United States. Killing over 600,000 Americans and causing the national death rate to jump 30% in a single year, the outbreak obstructed the country's participation in World War I and imposed terrible challenges on communities across the United States. This epidemic provides an ideal lens for understanding the history of infectious disease in the United States. The Flu Epidemic of 1918 examines the impact of the outbreak on health, medicine, government, and individual people's lives, and also explores the puzzle of Americans' decades-long silence about the experience once it was over. In a concise narrative bolstered by primary sources including newspaper articles, eye-witness accounts, and government reports, Sandra Opdycke provides undergraduates with an unforgettable introduction to the 1918 epidemic and its after-effects. Critical Moments in American History is a series of short texts designed to familiarize students with events or issues critical to the American experience. Through the use of narrative and primary documents, these books help instructors deconstruct an important moment in American history with the help of timelines, glossaries, textboxes, and a robust companion website.
Author : Nancy Bristow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199811512
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book American Pandemic written by Nancy Bristow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past. American Pandemic offers a much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza outbreak. It sheds light on the social and cultural history of Americans during the pandemic, uncovering both the causes of the nation's public amnesia and the depth of the quiet remembering that endured. Focused on the primary players in this drama--patients and their families, friends, and community, public health experts, and health care professionals--historian Nancy K. Bristow draws on multiple perspectives to highlight the complex interplay between social identity, cultural norms, memory, and the epidemic. Bristow has combed a wealth of primary sources, including letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, novels, newspapers, magazines, photographs, government documents, and health care literature. She shows that though the pandemic caused massive disruption in the most basic patterns of American life, influenza did not create long-term social or cultural change, serving instead to reinforce the status quo and the differences and disparities that defined American life. As the crisis waned, the pandemic slipped from the nation's public memory. The helplessness and despair Americans had suffered during the pandemic, Bristow notes, was a story poorly suited to a nation focused on optimism and progress. For countless survivors, though, the trauma never ended, shadowing the remainder of their lives with memories of loss. This book lets us hear these long-silent voices, reclaiming an important chapter in the American past.
Author : Dorothy Ann Pettit
Publisher : Timberlane Books
ISBN 13 : 9780971542815
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (428 download)
Download or read book A Cruel Wind written by Dorothy Ann Pettit and published by Timberlane Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flu pandemic that began in 1918 touched with illness virtually every family in America. It was a devastating time, far overshadowing the carnage of World War I as the pandemic killed more people in less time than any disease before or since. With 25% to 30% of the worlds population having clinically apparent illnesses and a mortality rate of 2.5% - 5%, it is believed that more than 675,000 Americans were among the 50-100 million that died worldwide. Because many experts believe that it is not a matter of if the world will encounter another 1918-like flu pandemic, but when, this social history of the pandemic should be considered essential reading for students, public health officials, doctors, nurses, journalists, and those in government office, interested in learning what workedand didntduring that grim time.
Author : Carol R Byerly
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814789633
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Fever of War written by Carol R Byerly and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.
Author : Richard Collier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Plague of the Spanish Lady written by Richard Collier and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar Jewell Harvey
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1647980763
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (479 download)
Download or read book The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 written by Oscar Jewell Harvey and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EARLY in September, 1918, the United States was invaded by a scourge of highly infectious and fatal disease, which spread with rapidity throughout the country. It was pandemic in its nature, and partook of many of the characteristics of influenza, grip and pneumonia. No one seemed to know much about the disease or its treatment, and medical science and public health agencies were alike unprepared to cope with it.
Author : Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1250145120
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book More Deadly Than War written by Kenneth C. Davis and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a fascinating account of the Spanish influenza pandemic 100 years after it first swept the world in 1918. "Davis deftly juggles compelling storytelling, gruesome details, and historical context. More Deadly Than War reads like a terrifying dystopian novel--that happens to be true." --Steve Sheinkin, author of Bomb and Undefeated A Washington Post Best Children's Book of the Month With 2018 marking the 100th anniversary of the worst disease outbreak in modern history, the story of the Spanish flu is more relevant today than ever. This dramatic narrative, told through the stories and voices of the people caught in the deadly maelstrom, explores how this vast, global epidemic was intertwined with the horrors of World War I--and how it could happen again. Complete with photographs, period documents, modern research, and firsthand reports by medical professionals and survivors, this book provides captivating insight into a catastrophe that transformed America in the early twentieth century. Praise for More Deadly Than War A Junior Library Guild Selection "More Deadly Than War is a riveting story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918, packed with unforgettable examples of the power of a virus gone rogue. Kenneth C. Davis's book serves as an important history--and an important reminder that we could very well face such a threat again." --Deborah Blum, New York Times bestselling author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. "With eye-popping details, Kenneth C. Davis tracks the deadly flu that shifted the powers in World War I and changed the course of world history. In an age of Ebola and Zika, this vivid account is a cautionary tale that will have you rushing to wash your hands for protection." --Karen Blumenthal, award-winning author of Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different * "Davis once again makes history accessible for students from the middle grades through high school." --VOYA, STARRED review
