Quarterly bulletin (New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Health). 1919-20
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Page : 930 pages
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Release : 1891
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Page : 930 pages
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Release : 1891
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Page : 926 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : New York (N.Y.). Department of Health
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : Army Medical Library (U.S.)
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Page : 998 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Bibliography
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"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Incunabula
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"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Department of Health
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2005-04-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309095042
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.
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Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Health
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Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : John M. Barry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143036494
#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It 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. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.