1918 Pandemic (Influenza)

1918 Pandemic Sites:

Is Another Influenza Pandemic Coming Soon? Is Another Influenza Pandemic Coming Soon?: Article from Infectious Disease News describing the investigation of a Spanish influenza sample found in WWI soldier's lungs. [Requires free registration] (1918 Pandemic) http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/199705/frameset.asp?article=pandemic.asp The 1918 Influenza Pandemic The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: History of this pandemic, the public health measures taken to limit it, and the efforts of scientists to pinpoint its cause. (1918 Pandemic) http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/ The American Experience - Influenza 1918 The American Experience - Influenza 1918: Information on the film from the PBS series. Features maps, timelines and people and events relating to this outbreak. (1918 Pandemic) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/influenza/ A Doughboy's Lungs Yield 1918 Flu Virus A Doughboy's Lungs Yield 1918 Flu Virus: An article from Science News Online describing the exhumation of one of the victims of the pandemic and the retrieval of a virus sample from his tissue. (1918 Pandemic) http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/3_22_97/fob1.htm Influenza 1918, A Venus Connection? Influenza 1918, A Venus Connection?: An American suggestion that some viruses come from outer space led British astronomers to hypothesize that Venus was a likely origin for solar-wind borne liquefying bacterial invasions. (1918 Pandemic) http://www.ebicom.net/~rsf1/vel/1918.htm The Flu Pandemic of 1918: Is a Repeat Performance Likely? The Flu Pandemic of 1918: Is a Repeat Performance Likely?: Part 1 of a 2-part article from Disaster Relief. (1918 Pandemic) http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/990219Flu/ Eighty Years Later, Threat of Influenza Pandemic Remains Large Eighty Years Later, Threat of Influenza Pandemic Remains Large: Part 2 of a 2-part article from Disaster Relief. (1918 Pandemic) http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/990222Flu2/ The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918 The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918: An account of the outbreak based on contemporary newspaper accounts of the its progress through Philadelphia. (1918 Pandemic) http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/1198/lynch.html Bubonic Plague: Far from the Deadliest Epidemic Bubonic Plague: Far from the Deadliest Epidemic: Compares the severity of historical bubonic plague pandemics to the Spanish Influenza pandemic. (1918 Pandemic) http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/bubonic_plague/