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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 Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 by : María Isabel Porras Gallo
Download or read book The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 written by María Isabel Porras Gallo and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded," focusing on social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to the pandemic.
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.
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.
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.
Book Synopsis The Spanish Influenza by : Harry P Rider
Download or read book The Spanish Influenza written by Harry P Rider and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to discover the origin, causes and effects of the most lethal influence known to our humanity and learn some useful lesson for the current 2020's pandemic? If yes, then keep reading! ✓ From January 1918 to December 1920, a Spanish pandemic killed about 50.000.000 people worldwide. The Flu killed over half a million people in the United States. Montana has lost about five thousand people to one of the highest mortality rates in the country. During World War I, Spain was neutral and did not censor information. The first cases of the Spanish bombing occurred in military camps and cities in the Midwest and quickly spread to the rest of the country. One of the main differences between the 2020's pandemic and Spanish Influenza is that the virus is primarily aimed at older men and those with weak immune systems, but the Spanish Flu targeted healthy-looking men. This Book Covers: What is the Spanish Flu? History of the Spanish Influenza Signs, Symptoms, Pathogenesis, and Complications What Actions Were Taken Globally in Search of a Cure 1918 Pandemic Wave What we have learned from Spanish Influenza and how we can defeat the 2020's pandemics Q&A with the main questions and doubts on the Spanish pandemic with references to the current pandemic... and so much more! The fear in 2020 is that the infection will dominate the American medical system. It was the case in 1918 when insufficient to treat a large number of patients admitted to minimal health care facilities. There no significant hospitals that we know. We then need to take a closer look at the Spanish epidemic of 1918 and record today's virus epidemic. Ready to get started? Click "Buy Now"! ✓
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 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 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?
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 2021-11-16 with total page 240 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.
Book Synopsis The Spanish Flu in Ireland by : Patricia Marsh
Download or read book The Spanish Flu in Ireland written by Patricia Marsh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Irish experience of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic through a detailed study of the disease in the most industrialised region of the country, the province of Ulster. By exploring the different themes of dispersion of the disease; mortality; gender; medical response and politics - and through case studies of different towns in the province of Ulster - it builds up a picture of the social, economic and political impact of influenza in Ireland. The Ulster experience of the pandemic is examined by constructing micro-histories of industrial cities and towns, along with provincial market towns and a naval port, to provide a basis for comparison of the differing approaches taken to combat the influenza outbreaks throughout Ulster. Contemporary opinion was that Ireland was considerably less affected by the war than the rest of the UK but, this book shows that the war did have a significant influence on how the influenza pandemic impacted on the Irish population from an economic, social and medical point of view. The book also explores the immediate aftermath of the pandemic and how it influenced the Irish response to the influenza scare of 1920 and the viral pandemic of Encephalitis Lethargica which was prevalent for ten years after 1918, as well as discussing what if any lessons learnt from 1918 have been applied to the present-day outbreak of Covid 19. This book will be of interest to academics in economic history, social history, Irish history and pandemic history, and those studying the effects of pandemics on the economy, health provision and pandemic preparedness.
Download or read book Spanish Flu 1918 written by Oscar Harwey and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Influenza pandemic is the most lethal pandemics of the Modern Age. The number of deaths that it produced throughout the world has been estimated at 21.5 million and 39.3 million. The book explores its consequences and the reactions of the world towards the deadliest plague the world has ever known. It delves into the history of the pandemic, noting its socio-economic effects. Imagine the gripping truth that you are about to discover in this collection of tragic true life story of the realitees of the people who lived in the early life. Imagine the stunning reality of death and the cruelity of the Spanish virus. This book unravels the brokenness of life and how the distortion of families came to play. In this book, you will learn: The epic story of the Spanish Flu 1918 Why and how the pandemic started Why led to the name "Spanish Flu" Various symptoms of the flu The reactions of the government and people towards the outbreak (Authoritative measures taken to curb the virus, the people's adoptive preventative measures) The socio-economic consequences of the pandemic Its impact on the American socio-economy The mortality effect of the pandemic in the united states Various factors associated with influenza mortality variations in 1918 (Age, Immunopathology, Humoral Immune Response, Cellular Immune Response, Malnutrition, etc.) Possible vaccines considerations against the flu Historical lessons from the outbreak Why several other future pandemics may occur Spanish Flu 1918 is an interesting book to study, not only because of its rich historical magnitude, but also because it offers much knowledge (about the Spanish flu 1918) and acts as an insight into how any future-possible pandemic can be curbed. It is a must-have book. Inside you will also find several illustrative images Remember, history must be studied to prevent past mistakes WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? PURCHASE THIS BOOK NOW
Book Synopsis America's Forgotten Pandemic by : Alfred W. Crosby
Download or read book America's Forgotten Pandemic written by Alfred W. Crosby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-stricken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event. This 2003 edition includes a preface discussing the then recent outbreaks of diseases, including the Asian flu and the SARS epidemic.
Book Synopsis The Spanish Influenza by : Harry P Rider
Download or read book The Spanish Influenza written by Harry P Rider and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to discover the origin, causes and effects of the most lethal influence known to our humanity and learn some useful lesson for the current pandemic? If yes, then keep reading! ✓ From January 1918 to December 1920, a Spanish pandemic killed about 50.000.000 people worldwide. The Flu killed over half a million people in the United States. Montana has lost about five thousand people to one of the highest mortality rates in the country. During World War I, Spain was neutral and did not censor information. The first cases of the Spanish bombing occurred in military camps and cities in the Midwest and quickly spread to the rest of the country. One of the main differences between the 2020's pandemic and Spanish Influenza is that the virus is primarily aimed at older men and those with weak immune systems, but the Spanish Flu targeted healthy-looking men. This Book Covers: What is the Spanish Flu? History of the Spanish Influenza Signs, Symptoms, Pathogenesis, and Complications What Actions Were Taken Globally in Search of a Cure 1918 Pandemic Wave What we have learned from Spanish Influenza and how we can defeat the 2020's pandemics Q&A with the main questions and doubts on the Spanish pandemic with references to the current pandemic... and much more! The fear in 2020 is that the infection will dominate the American medical system. It was the case in 1918 when insufficient to treat a large number of patients admitted to minimal health care facilities. There no significant hospitals that we know. We then need to take a closer look at the Spanish epidemic of 1918 and record today's virus epidemic. Ready to get started? Click "Buy Now"! ✓
Download or read book Stacking the coffins written by Ida Milne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1918–19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious disease epidemics like the corona virus COVID-19. It decimated families, silenced cities and towns as it passed through, stilled commerce, closed schools and public buildings and put normal life on hold. Sometimes it killed several members of the same family. Like COVID-19 there was no preventative vaccine for the virus, and many died from secondary bacterial pneumonia in this pre-antibiotic era. In this work, Ida Milne tells how it impacted on Ireland, during a time of war and revolution. But the stories she tells of the harrowing impact on families, and of medicine's desperate search to heal the ill, could apply to any other place in the world at the time.
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 Influenza by : Harry Rider
Download or read book The Spanish Influenza written by Harry Rider and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to discover the origin, causes and effects of the most lethal influence known to our humanity and learn some useful lesson for the current 2020's pandemic? If yes, then keep reading! ✓ From January 1918 to December 1920, a Spanish pandemic killed about 50.000.000 people worldwide. The Flu killed over half a million people in the United States. Montana has lost about five thousand people to one of the highest mortality rates in the country. During World War I, Spain was neutral and did not censor information. The first cases of the Spanish bombing occurred in military camps and cities in the Midwest and quickly spread to the rest of the country. One of the main differences between the 2020's pandemic and Spanish Influenza is that the virus is primarily aimed at older men and those with weak immune systems, but the Spanish Flu targeted healthy-looking men. This Book Covers: What is the Spanish Flu? History of the Spanish Influenza Signs, Symptoms, Pathogenesis, and Complications What Actions Were Taken Globally in Search of a Cure 1918 Pandemic Wave What we have learned from Spanish Influenza and how we can defeat the 2020's pandemics Q&Anbsp;with the main questions and doubts on the Spanish pandemic with references to the current pandemic... and so much more! The fear in 2020 is that the infection will dominate the American medical system. It was the case in 1918 when insufficient to treat a large number of patients admitted to minimal health care facilities. There no significant hospitals that we know. We then need to take a closer look at the Spanish epidemic of 1918 and record today's virus epidemic. Ready to get started? Click "Buy Now"! ✓
