Topic: Historical Plagues And Pandemics

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Film Review: Contagion (3 stars)

At the end of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, after the furry primates have made their big stand on the Golden Gate Bridge, we're treated to a...
Inspiring New Novel Depicts Tale of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. . Authors predict that the book will appeal to a large audience. Longwood, FL...
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A Blight to Remember

Ninety years later, survivors of the worst epidemic in history still retain knowledge of the event--on a cellular level. Even the seasonal flu prompts immune cells called B cells to generate antibodies specific to the offending virus. A closer look at eight ...

Pandemic Flu

Pandemic flu occurs when an influenza epidemic occurs worldwide, infecting a large proportion of the human population. The World Health Organization created a six-point scale in 2005 to measure the severity of a flu outbreak and to assist in alerting agencies to ...

Spanish Flu

The Spanish Flu, also know as the 1918 flu, was an avian flu pandemic that was first diagnosed in the United States . the Mother of All Pandemics Scientists believe that the Spanish Flu was a mutated strain of avian flu known as ...
It sells goods and services like nothing else. Now let's look at 1976 when President Gerald Ford pushed the public's panic button in expectation of a resurgence of the 1918 flu. In fact, when Congress slowed their pace on the ...
On September 19, 1918,Roscoe Vaughan, a 21-year-old Army private reported to the base hospital at Camp Jackson, South Carolina complaining of chills, fever, headache, backache, and a cough. Berthold J. Goetz, a soldier from St. Mary's Catholic Church who lived ...
One of the aspects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic that I am most keenly interested in is the fact that it seems to have been almost entirely dismissed from public awareness. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Stephanie True Peters discusses several reasons why ...