Influenza : a century of science and public health response /

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"In 1976, the outbreak of a new strain of swine flu at the Fort Dix, New Jersey, army base prompted an unprecedented inoculation campaign. Some forty-two million Americans were vaccinated as the National Influenza Immunization Program hastened to prevent a pandemic, while the World Health Organ...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dehner, George (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012.
©2012
Temas:
Influenza > Prevention.
Influenza > Epidemiology.
Influenza > History.
Communicable diseases > History.
Epidemics > History.
Communicable Disease Control > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Influenza, Human > history
Influenza, Human > prevention & control
International Cooperation > history
Pandemics > history
Pandemics > prevention & control
Grippe > Épidémiologie.
Grippe > Histoire.
Maladies infectieuses > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 21e siècle.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > History.
Communicable diseases.
Epidemics.
Influenza.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : wagers and unexpected outcomes
  • Influenza : virus and history
  • The forgotten pandemic remembered
  • Breakthroughs
  • Setbacks
  • The forecast calls for pandemics
  • "Chance favors the prepared mind"
  • An act of will
  • A different interpretation emerges
  • WHO decides
  • A program begins and ends and an epidemic appears
  • The continuing lessons of influenza's history.

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