America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918Cambridge University Press, 21.07.2003 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. |
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Three ExplosionsAfrica Europe and America | |
Spanish Influenza Sweeps the Country | |
Flu in Philadelphia | |
Flu in San Francisco | |
Flu at Sea on the Voyage to France | |
Flu and the American Expeditionary Force | |
Flu and the Paris Peace Conference | |
Measurements Research Conclusions and Confusions | |
Samoa and Alaska | |
Research Frustration and the Isolation of the Virus | |
Where Did the Flu of 1918 | |
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19 October Alaska American Medical Association American Samoa Annual Reports arrived August Board of Health Boston Evening Transcript Brest Britain Camp cause civilian death rate December Department U. S. Army Devens died of flu disease doctors epidemic Epidemic Influenza Europe fall wave fever fight flu and pneumonia flu research flu virus France German Governor Riggs Hassler History hospital House human Ibid infection Influenza and Pneumonia Island January Journal Juneau killed Leviathan lungs masks Medical Department U. S. Medicine Ministry of Health month mortality National Archives Navy Department November nurses October Pago Pago Pago Pandemic of Influenza percent Pfeiffer’s bacillus Philadelphia Inquirer physicians pigs population President Public Health Reports quarantine Red Cross respiratory sailors San Francisco Chronicle Seattle September 1918 September 26 ship Shope sick soldiers Spanish influenza spread statistics Surgeon swine flu troops troopships U. S. Army United USPHS vaccine Washington week Wilson York