Home >> Health >> Conditions and Diseases >> Infectious Diseases >> Viral >> Influenza >> 1918 Pandemic The American Experience - Influenza 1918 Information on the film from the PBS series. Features maps, timelines and people and events relating to this outbreak. 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. 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. Bubonic Plague: Far from the Deadliest Epidemic Compares the severity of historical bubonic plague pandemics to the Spanish Influenza pandemic. 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 Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918 An account of the outbreak based on contemporary newspaper accounts of its progress through Philadelphia. 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] Wikipedia: Spanish Flu Article about the 1918 Influenza pandemic with a look to geographical origins and social impact. 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. 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
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