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1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics

2006-01-01

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The "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, which caused 50 million deaths worldwide, remains an ominous warning to public health. Many questions about its origins, its unusual epidemiologic features, and the basis of its pathogenicity remain unanswered. The public health implications of the pandemic therefore remain in doubt even as we now grapple with the feared emergence of a pandemic caused by H5N1 or other...

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Literature Corpus work: 7a4840eb-c710-5b43-a413-e0ee8113808d
DOI: 10.3201/eid1209.050979

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