Spanish influenza redux: revisiting the mother of all pandemics
2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 391; Issue: 10139 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(18)31360-6
ISSN1474-547X
Autores Tópico(s)Influenza Virus Research Studies
ResumoThe “Spanish” influenza virus—or at least its viral offspring—have been circulating between the northern and southern hemispheres for 100 years now, but it is arguably only in the past few years that histories of the pandemic virus have achieved a similar ubiquity in our culture. Indeed, in a period that has seen a steady flow of books and films about World War 1, it should come as no surprise that the 1918–19 influenza pandemic should have become an object of similar popular interest, with the BBC, America's National Public Radio, and the US Smithsonian Institution all commissioning major documentaries and exhibitions to mark its centenary this year. The Spanish flu: an interdisciplinary problemMark Honigsbaum (June 23, p 2492)1 describes my claim that the Spanish flu left humanity transformed as “sweeping”2—a subtly pejorative term that hints at a weak evidence base while excusing the person who uses it from presenting stronger evidence of their own. He writes that many historians disagree with me but, unfortunately, does not name them. Full-Text PDF
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