The 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Towards the end of world war one, the world faced a pandemic, caused not by smallpox or bubonic plague, but by an influenza A virus. The 1918–19 influenza pandemic was possibly the worst single natural disaster of all time, infecting an estimated 500 million people, or one third of the world populat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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CSIRO Publishing
2020-01-01
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Series: | Microbiology Australia |
Online Access: | https://www.publish.csiro.au/ma/pdf/MA20049 |