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Author Athukorala, Prema-chandra, author.

Title The 1918-20 Influenza Pandemic : A Retrospective in the Time of COVID-19 / Prema-chandra Athukorala, Chaturica Athukorala
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Series Elements in Development Economics
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Summary The pandemic of 1918-20-commonly known as the Spanish flu-infected over a quarter of the world's population and killed over fifty million people. It is by far the greatest humanitarian disaster caused by an infectious disease in modern history. Epidemiologists and health scientists often draw on this experience to set the plausible upper bound (the 'worst case scenario') on future pandemic mortality. The purpose of this study is to piece together and analyse the scattered multi-disciplinary literature on the pandemic in order to place debates on the evolving course of the current COVID-19 crisis in historical perspective. The analysis focuses on the changing characteristics of pathogens and disease over time, the institutional factors that shaped the global spread, the demographic and socio-economic consequences, and pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical responses to the pandemic. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.-- Provided by publisher
Subject Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Communicable diseases -- History
Communicable diseases -- Forecasting
Medicine, Comparative.
Communicable diseases
Medicine, Comparative
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Athukorala, Chaturica, author
ISBN 9781009336062
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9781009336086
1009336088