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Georg Simmel was born in Berlin, Germany, as the youngest of seven children to an assimilated Jewish family. His father, Eduard Simmel (1810–1874), a prosperous businessman and convert to Roman Catholicism, had founded a confectionery store called "Felix & Sarotti" that would later be taken over by a chocolate manufacturer.
Another theory holds that the 1918 virus mutated extremely rapidly to a less lethal strain. Such evolution of influenza is a common occurrence: there is a tendency for pathogenic viruses to become less lethal with time, as the hosts of more dangerous strains tend to die out. [83] Fatal cases did continue into 1919, however.
Brevig Mission lost approximately 85% of its population to the 1918 flu in November 1918. One of the four recovered samples contained viable genetic material of the virus. This sample provided scientists a first-hand opportunity to study the virus, which was inactivated with guanidinium thiocyanate before transport.
Triadic closure is a concept in social network theory, first suggested by German sociologist Georg Simmel in his 1908 book Soziologie [Sociology: Investigations on the Forms of Sociation]. [1] Triadic closure is the property among three nodes A, B, and C (representing people, for instance), that if the connections A-B and A-C exist, there is a ...
It seems everyone is getting sick. Sniffles. Coughing. Sore throat. And worse.
New cases were 22.02% higher than those added in the previous week, and COVID-19 testing increased by 0.44%. Palm Beach reported 1,489 new resident cases, reaching a cumulative total of 461,440.
COVID-19 pandemic: 2019 [a] –present Worldwide COVID-19: 7.1–36.5 million [306] 2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola outbreak: 2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ebola: 55 [307] 2020 dengue outbreak in Singapore: 2020 Singapore: Dengue fever: 32 [308] 2020 Nigeria yellow fever epidemic 2020 Nigeria: Yellow fever: 296 (as of 31 ...
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