Government Responses and Expectations During the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

The 1918 - 1919 influenza epidemic occurs during the First World War, which will deprive more lives than the war itself. This illness happened suddenly without notice and soon spread all over the world. Every human being seems to be sympathetic to this deadly disease. William Collier described the symptoms of influenza in a letter to Lancet. After the patient grips, their temperature can reach 105 ° C or more, and their pulse is on average about 90 times per minute.

During the 1918 - 1919 pandemic, researchers tried to develop a vaccine. According to the vaccine history program, many vaccines are infected with H. influenzae (now known as H. influenzae) and S. pneumoniae, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus and M. cerevisiae. have been tested against strains of catarrhalis. These bacterial vaccines have no chance to stop the pandemic, and we now know that this is caused by a new strain of influenza A virus. However, due to the annual global seasonal influenza outbreaks, there are 620,000 to 650,000 deaths annually. (A) the availability of the vaccine, (b) the health care and health conditions are far superior to the situation of a century ago, and (c) the harm of viruses causing seasonal influenza are less and cause infection Because of the low possibility, the mortality rate is low fatal damage

Those who explain the influenza epidemic from 1918 to 1919, better than part-time dean of the University of Michigan Medical School and Dr. Victor Clarence Vaughn, a US surgeon consultant during the First World War Almost not. In the beginning of September 1918, Vaughn came from a microorganism from army camp in the outskirts of Boston, not from bullets. He regrets that influenza "went round the world and visited the furthest corner and became the most powerful cause.It faces the scientist" The crowd that is full of crowded temporary wards Between the sites, Vaughan is worried about accumulating the body and records it. "Like a mouthwash. "

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