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Book Synopsis The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 by : David Killingray
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.
Book Synopsis The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic by : Charles River Editors
Download or read book The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the pandemic from doctors and survivors *Includes a bibliography for further reading "One of the startling features of the pandemic was its sudden flaring up and its equally sudden decline, reminding one of a flame consuming highly combustible material, which died down as soon as the supply of the material was exhausted. There is every reason to believe that, within a few weeks of its onset, the infection was universally present in the nose and throat of the people, disseminated by mouth spray given off on talking by innumerable carriers and, in addition, by the coughing and sneezing of the sick. Susceptibility was very general, though it varied greatly in degree. Among those who escaped well marked sickness there are few who could not recall having had an occluded or running nose, or a raw feeling in the throat, or a cough, or aches and pains, at some time during the period of the prevalence of the disease, these probably representing the price such persons paid for their immunization." - Dr. Bernard Fantus In many ways, it is hard for modern people living in First World countries to conceive of a pandemic sweeping around the world and killing millions of people, and it is even harder to believe that something as common as influenza could cause such widespread illness and death. Although the flu still takes hundreds of lives each year, most of those lost are very young or old or ill with something else that had already weakened them. In fact, most people contract influenza at least once, and many suffer from the flu several times in their lives and survive it with a minimum amount of medical attention. In 1918, the world was still in the throes of the Great War, the deadliest conflict in human history at that point, but while World War I would be a catastrophic war surpassed only by World War II, an unprecedented influenza outbreak that same year inflicted casualties that would make both wars pale in comparison. An illness, or more likely a collection of illnesses, Spanish influenza quickly spread across the world and may have killed upwards of 100 million people, decimating populations across developed nations and possibly wiping out as much as 5% of the world's population. If anything, the ongoing war and the censorship maintained by the countries fighting it may have resulted in the actual toll of the outbreak being underestimated based on the way soldiers' deaths were categorized. World War I may have distracted people about the unprecedented nature of the outbreak, but the most alarming aspect of the outbreak in 1918 was the indiscriminate nature in which the scourge attacked young and old, healthy and unhealthy, and rich and poor alike. In fact, the popular name for the outbreak was a reference to the fact that Spain's own king was stricken with the disease. While he and President Woodrow Wilson ended up surviving it, former First Lady Rose Cleveland did not. The staggering number of fatalities, and the way in which seemingly anybody could suffer during the outbreak, taught people in the early 20th century that regardless of the tremendous strides made by technology, and no matter how stalemated the war was, nobody was safe from nature itself. Of course, it also demonstrated how much more work could be done to prevent similar occurrences. The 1918 pandemic was neither the first nor the last outbreak of the flu, but it was by far the worst, and it forever changed the face of medicine and public health care in both North America and Europe. The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: The History and Legacy of the World's Deadliest Outbreak chronicles the devastating disease and the damage it wrought across the globe. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about the 1918 flu outbreak like never before, in no time at all.
Book Synopsis Very, Very, Very Dreadful by : Albert Marrin
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 208 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!
Book Synopsis The Flu Pandemic of 1918 by : Kristin Marciniak
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.
Book Synopsis The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by : Claire O'Neal
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?
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.
Book Synopsis Expressing 1918 Influenza by : Oliva Green
Download or read book Expressing 1918 Influenza written by Oliva Green and published by . This book was released on with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the deadly corona virus rampages through the world, here is a look back to a pandemic that shook the world 100 years ago. Yes, about the Spanish Flu, aka, 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Here in this book you could have a rove through the wordings which refers or references the 1918 Influenza, the flu pandemic.
Book Synopsis The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History by : Jaime Breitnauer
Download or read book The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History written by Jaime Breitnauer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the 1918 influenza pandemic from its outbreak to its effects on the global population and its legacy. On the second Monday of March, 1918, the world changed forever. What seemed like a harmless cold morphed into a global pandemic that would wipe out as many as a hundred-million people—ten times as many as the Great War. German troops faltered, lending the allies the winning advantage, and India turned its sights to independence while South Africa turned to God. In Western Samoa, a quarter of the population died; in some parts of Alaska, whole villages were wiped out. Civil unrest sparked by influenza shaped nations and heralded a new era of public health where people were no longer blamed for contracting disease. Using real case histories, we take a journey through the world in 1918, and look at the impact of Spanish flu on populations from America to France and the Arctic, and at the scientific legacy this deadly virus has left behind. “Breitnauer puts the whole thing into perspective with a fascinating account of the origin and extent of the outbreak, at a time when people were returning from the conflict expecting a brave new world and instead confronting one of the deadliest epidemics ever to hit mankind.” —Books Monthly (UK)
Book Synopsis Pandemic Re-Awakenings by : Guy Beiner
Download or read book Pandemic Re-Awakenings written by Guy Beiner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers present original perspectives by critically investigating the hitherto unexplored vicissitudes of memory in the interrelated spheres of personal, communal, medical, and cultural histories in different national and transnational settings across the globe. The volume reveals how, even though the Great Flu was overshadowed by the commemorative culture of the Great War, recollections of the pandemic persisted over time to re-emerge towards the centenary of the 'Spanish' Flu and burst into public consciousness following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters chart historiographical neglect (while acknowledging the often-unnoticed dialogues between scientific and historical discourses), probe silences, and trace vestiges of social and cultural memories that long remained outside of what was considered collective memory.
Download or read book The Spanish Flu written by R. Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread.
Download or read book 1918 Spanish Flu written by Sean Locke and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if we could finally shed light on the 1918 Spanish Flu, the influenza that killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century? 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease and some aspects still not clarified. The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history. The 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world. The virus H1N1 infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, which at that time was about one-third of the planet's population, and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including 675,000 Americans, because at the time, there were no effective drugs or vaccines to treat this killer flu strain. 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. "The "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, which caused approximately 50 million deaths worldwide, remains an ominous warning to public health. Many questions about its origins, its unusual epidemiologic features, and the basis of its pathogenicity remain unanswered. [...] Understanding the 1918 pandemic and its implications for future pandemics requires careful experimentation and in-depth historical analysis." - PubMed "1918 Spanish Flu: Causes, facts and numbers of the deadliest ever world influenza Pandemic" by Sean Locke will try to finally shed light on the deadliest pandemic of human history thanks to reliable data and statistics. Here is what you are going to find inside of "1918 Spanish Flu": The question of the place of origin and the time of origin Reliable data and statistics The structure surrounding the spread of influenza Lesson learnt from 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: world impact and economic consequences Differences between other pandemics ...and much, much more! Scroll up and add to cart "1918 Spanish Flu" by Sean Locke! About the author: Sean Locke was born in 1976 in Tampa, Florida. He love history since he was only 9 years old as this was his favorite subject. Has always had top marks in history, but he is always been also good in science and scientific subjects in general. Sean Locke's passion for history remained for his whole life even if he decided to follow a medical biotechnology career. In the last years Sean started gathering information about some viruses he had to study as a biotechnologist, including H1N1 virus, responsible of the spread of Spanish Flu in 1918. Sean Locke's passion for history pushed him to also gathering information about historical and economic consequences of the spread of this influenza. The result of his researches were collected in a book, "1918 Spanish Flu", which tries to shed light on the not clarified aspects of the pandemic. Sean Locke's book is clear and easy to understand even if it contains specific and scientific explanations, everybody can read it without difficulties. Scroll up and add to cart "1918 Spanish Flu" by Sean Locke!
Book Synopsis 1918 FLU Pandemic by : Martina E Fisher
Download or read book 1918 FLU Pandemic written by Martina E Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who do not remember the past should be condemned to repeat the same mistakes! This disease although, it has globally made many more victims of the dreaded plague, seems to be condemned to eternal underestimation and oblivion. Called Spanish otherwise known as "The Great flu,", it was a flu pandemic, unusually deadly but had nothing to do with Spain. This Influenza killed tens of millions of people around the world in 1918 and 1920 and was the first of the pandemics of the 20th century involving the H1N1 influenza virus. The deadly waves of the disease accompanied two crucial phases of the 1st World War: the first, in spring, lighter, attended the last great German offensive; the second terrible was in autumn, was overshadowed by the light of the longed-for victory of the First World War. Inside this book you will find: The epic story of the Spanish Flu 1918 Why and how the pandemic started Why led to the name "Spanish Flu" Who was the first infected ? an American? Why was it called the Spanish Flu Pandemic? The Aspirin Poisoning The Deadly second Wave And Several illustrative images Scroll up to grab your copy of The Spanish Flu book today!
Download or read book Influenza written by Jeremy Brown and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Highlights that influenza is still a real and present threat and demonstrates the power and limitations of modern medicine.” —The Wall Street Journal “A surprisingly compelling and accessible story of one of the world’s most deadly diseases. It is timely and interesting, engaging and sobering.” —David Gregort, CNN political analyst and former moderator for NBC’s Meet the Press A veteran ER doctor explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history and present-day research of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure? While influenza is now often thought of as a common but mild disease, it still kills more than thirty thousand people in the United States each year. Dr. Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor and director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health, talks with leading epidemiologists, policy makers, and the researcher who first sequenced the genetic building blocks of the original 1918 virus to offer both a comprehensive history and a road map to protect us from the next outbreak. Dr. Brown explores the terrifying and complex history of the flu virus and looks at the controversy over vaccinations and the federal government’s role in preparing for pandemic outbreaks. Though a hundred years of advancement in medical research and technology have passed since the 1918 disaster, Dr. Brown warns that many of the most vital questions about the flu virus continue to confound even the leading experts.
Download or read book Fever Year written by Don Brown and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sibert honor-winning creator behind The Unwanted and Drowned City comes a graphic novel of one of the darkest episodes in American history: the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. New Year's Day, 1918. America has declared war on Germany and is gathering troops to fight. But there's something coming that is deadlier than any war. When people begin to fall ill, most Americans don't suspect influenza. The flu is known to be dangerous to the very old, young, or frail. But the Spanish flu is exceptionally violent. Soon, thousands of people succumb. Then tens of thousands . . . hundreds of thousands and more. Graves can't be dug quickly enough. What made the influenza of 1918 so exceptionally deadly--and what can modern science help us understand about this tragic episode in history? With a journalist's discerning eye for facts and an artist's instinct for true emotion, Sibert Honor recipient Don Brown sets out to answer these questions and more in Fever Year.
Book Synopsis The Flu Epidemic of 1918 by : Sandra Opdycke
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 216 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.
Book Synopsis Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 by : John Crosby
Download or read book Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 written by John Crosby and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was the Spanish Flu known as the Spanish Flu? What caused the Spanish Flu? Where did the Spanish Flu come from? Why was it known as the 'Spanish Flu?' The Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain, although news insurance of it did. At some point of global warfare, Spain was an impartial united state with an unfastened media that covered the outbreak from the start, first reporting on it in Madrid in late 1918. In the meantime, Allied countries and the crucial Powers had wartime censors who protected up information of the flu to hold morale excessive. Because Spanish information resources were the most effective ones reporting at the flu, many believed it originated there (the Spanish, in the meantime, believed the virus came from France and called it the "French Flu.") Scientists up to this day, do not understand in which country did the Spanish Flu really originated, though theories factor to France, China, Britain, or the USA, where the first acknowledged case turned into pronounced at Camp Funston in citadel Riley, Kansas, on March 11, 1918. a few believe infected infantrymen unfold the sickness to other navy camps throughout the United States of America, then delivered it to distant places. In March 1918, 84,000 American infantrymen headed across the Atlantic and had been accompanied with the aid of 118,000 more the following month. This book covers: History Of Flu Epidemic Of 1918 The Rampant Virus How Did The Flu Epidemic Of 1918 Spread? Toward The End Of The Great War The War And Virus That Changed World And much more! It's unknown precisely where the unique stress of influenza that induced the pandemic came from; however, the 1918 flu was first found in Europe, the USA and regions of Asia earlier than spreading to nearly each different part of the planet within a number of months. One uncommon issue of the 1918 flu was that it hit many beforehand healthy, younger people-a set usually proofed against this kind of infectious illness or virus. despite the fact that the death toll attributed to the Spanish flu is frequently estimated at 20 million to 50 million victims internationally, different estimates run as high as a hundred million victims-around 3 percentage of the world's populace. the exact numbers are impossible to know due to a lack of medical report-preserving in many places. via the summer time of 1919, the flu pandemic came to a cease, as those that were inflamed both died and developed immunity. nearly 90 years later, in 2008, researchers introduced they'd determined what made the 1918 flu so lethal: a group of 3 genes enabled the virus to weaken a sufferer's bronchial tubes and lungs and clear the manner for bacterial pneumonia. All of these present-day pandemics takes renewed interest in to the Spanish Flu, or "forgotten pandemic," so-named due to the fact its spread changed and overshadowed by the deadliness of WWI and contained within by using news blackouts and poor document-maintaining.
Book Synopsis The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by : Oscar Jewell Harvey
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.
