ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Case Fatality Rate, Swine Influenza, Curbed
24 Oct 2014
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Professional historians have been extremely skeptical about the importance of epidemics in history howard phillips and david. ~50 million 100 died worldwide, in < 1 year. Identified based on suite of symptoms: fever, body aches, muscle and joint pain, headache, sore throat, cough. Severe: mortality rate among infected > 2. 5% cfr. Symptoms appear suddenly: shivering, headaches, pain in legs/kidneys, collapse, high fever, hacking cough, heliotrope cyanosis: lavender grey hue to face and ears. The treachery of the malady is demonstrated in the death of henry drummondthree hours after the first symptom showed, he was dead. He was taken ill at his home, and immediately removed to king edward hospital where he died shortly before midnight. Most recovered in 1 week: ~ 20 % developed secondary pneumonia and 40-50% of those people died. Secondary infections killed them: staphylococcus, streptococcus, tuberculosis (ie. disease interactions) All ages affected but 20-40 year olds died disproportionately. Two surface antigens: hemagglutinen (h, neuraminidase (n)
