HLST 4010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Global Health
14 Oct 2020
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Week 1 reading- the spanish influenza pandemic: m. The spanish influenza pandemic: a lesson from history 100 years after 1918 journal of preventive medicine and hygiene 60:1 (march 2019): e64- Summary: the influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people worldwide. Spanish flu , as the infection was dubbed, hit different age-groups, displaying a so- called w-trend , typically with two spikes in children and the elderly. However, healthy young adults were also affected: first preventative actions that were implemented include mandatory notifications of suspected cases and the surveillance of communities such as day schools, boarding schools and barracks. The silence of the press: the censored spanish flu. The extent to which the gravity of the pandemic was accentuated by malnutrition among war-tired populations is unclear: another thesis was that the disease had been triggered by a bacteriological war waged by the austro-german enemy.
