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  2. History of public health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    February 1918 drawing by Marguerite Martyn of a visiting nurse in St. Louis, Missouri, with medicine and babies. Historian Nancy Bristow has argued that the great 1918 flu pandemic contributed to the success of women in the field of nursing. This was due in part to the failure of medical doctors, who were nearly all men, to contain and prevent ...

  3. Spanish flu - Wikipedia

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    Japanese women in Tokyo during the Spanish flu pandemic, 1919. Estimates for the death toll in China have varied widely, [292] [98] a range which reflects the lack of centralized collection of health data at the time due to the Warlord period. China may have experienced a relatively mild flu season in 1918 compared to other areas of the world.

  4. Treatment of influenza - Wikipedia

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    An alternative to vaccination used in the 1918 flu pandemic was the direct transfusion of blood, plasma, or serum from recovered patients. Though medical experiments of the era lacked some procedural refinements, eight publications from 1918 to 1925 reported that the treatment could approximately halve the mortality in hospitalized severe cases ...

  5. Many doctors fear a repeat of the world's 1st, only flu ... - AOL

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    In 1918, the world's population was menaced by a virus now known as influenza. The "flu," for short, has become a commonality that is widely misunderstood, even a century after it claimed 50 ...

  6. The World Changed Its Approach to Health After the 1918 Flu ...

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    After the 1918 flu pandemic, many countries changed their approach to public health and disease. Will we do the same after COVID-19? The World Changed Its Approach to Health After the 1918 Flu.

  7. Spanish flu research - Wikipedia

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    In the event of another pandemic, US military researchers have proposed reusing a treatment from the deadly pandemic of 1918 in order to blunt the effects of the flu: Some military doctors injected severely afflicted patients with blood or blood plasma from people who had recovered from the flu. Data collected during that time indicates that ...

  8. Jeffery Taubenberger - Wikipedia

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    The first to sequence the genome of the influenza virus which caused the 1918 pandemic of Spanish flu. Jeffery K. Taubenberger (born 1961 in Landstuhl , Germany ) is an American virologist . With Ann Reid , he was the first to sequence the genome of the influenza virus which caused the 1918 pandemic of Spanish flu .

  9. Influenza pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The 1889–1890 pandemic, often referred to as the Asiatic flu [57] or Russian flu, killed about 1 million people [58] [59] out of a world population of about 1.5 billion. It was long believed to be caused by an influenza A subtype (most often H2N2), but recent analysis largely brought on by the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic ...