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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: one hundred years of progress, but where now?

2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 6; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s2213-2600(18)30272-8

2213-2619

William Barclay, Peter Openshaw,

Influenza Virus Research Studies

A century ago, as the First World War drew to an end, Spanish influenza brought terror to an already shell-shocked world. Industrialised warfare had caused the loss of many young lives and there must have been a sense that things couldn't get any worse. And yet they did: a virus unlike any other in recent memory unleashed itself onto a weakened and highly mobile population, causing more than 50 million additional deaths.