Knowledge: 1918 pandemic
Links
- A Doughboy's Lungs Yield 1918 Flu Virus
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/3_22_97/fob1.htm - An article from Science News Online describing the exhumation of one of the victims of the pandemic and the retrieval of a virus sample from his tissue.
- Influenza 1918, A Venus Connection?
http://www.ebicom.net/~rsf1/vel/1918.htm - An American suggestion that some viruses come from outer space led British astronomers to hypothesize that Venus was a likely origin for solar-wind borne liquefying bacterial invasions.
- Bubonic Plague: Far from the Deadliest Epidemic
http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/bubonic_plague/ - Compares the severity of historical bubonic plague pandemics to the Spanish Influenza pandemic.
- The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/ - History of this pandemic, the public health measures taken to limit it, and the efforts of scientists to pinpoint its cause.
- The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918
http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/1198/lynch.html - An account of the outbreak based on contemporary newspaper accounts of its progress through Philadelphia.
- Is Another Influenza Pandemic Coming Soon?
http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/199705/frameset.asp?article=pandemic.asp - Article from Infectious Disease News describing the investigation of a Spanish influenza sample found in WWI soldier's lungs. [Requires free registration]
- Wikipedia: Spanish Flu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu - Article about the 1918 Influenza pandemic with a look to geographical origins and social impact.
- The Public Health Response
http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/fluresponse.html - Discusses the response of the public and the public health infrastructure in the face of the 1918 Influenza epidemic as it happened.
- Images from the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/archives/agalleries/1918flu/1918flu.html - Patients, medical personnel, field hospitals, and charts showing the dramatic spread of the 1918 pandemic. From the National Museum of Health & Medicine
- The Medical and Scientific Conceptions of Influenza
http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/fluscimed.html - The response by doctors and scientists during the pandemic and in the aftermath.
- The American Experience | Influenza 1918
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/ - Information on the film from the PBS series. Features include, maps, timelines and people and events relating to this devastating occurrence.
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