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Top : Health : Conditions_and_Diseases : Infectious_Diseases : Viral : Influenza : 1918_Pandemic
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  • A Doughboy's Lungs Yield 1918 Flu Virus: 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.
  • Bubonic Plague: Far from the Deadliest Epidemic: Compares the severity of historical bubonic plague pandemics to the Spanish Influenza pandemic.
  • Images from the 1918 Influenza Epidemic: Patients, medical personnel, field hospitals, and charts showing the dramatic spread of the 1918 pandemic. From the National Museum of Health & Medicine
  • Influenza 1918, A Venus Connection?: 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.
  • Is Another Influenza Pandemic Coming Soon?: Article from Infectious Disease News describing the investigation of a Spanish influenza sample found in WWI soldier's lungs. [Requires free registration]
  • The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: History of this pandemic, the public health measures taken to limit it, and the efforts of scientists to pinpoint its cause.
  • The American Experience | Influenza 1918: Information on the film from the PBS series. Features include, maps, timelines and people and events relating to this devastating occurrence.
  • The Medical and Scientific Conceptions of Influenza: The response by doctors and scientists during the pandemic and in the aftermath.
  • The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918: An account of the outbreak based on contemporary newspaper accounts of its progress through Philadelphia.
  • The Public Health Response: Discusses the response of the public and the public health infrastructure in the face of the 1918 Influenza epidemic as it happened.
  • Wikipedia: Spanish Flu: Article about the 1918 Influenza pandemic with a look to geographical origins and social impact.


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