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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Spanish Flu"”.
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Black October : the impact of the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 on South Africa
… periodicals and the recollections of over 200 'flu survivors, it traces the course of the epidemic in five main areas where its severity paralysed everyday life, viz. the Witwatersrand gold mines, Cape Town, Kimberley, Bloemfontein and the Transkei. Each of these five chapters concludes with an …
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Diseased Identities: How the American Media Constructed the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
… other". From the "French" disease to the "Spanish" flu, the association of disease and geography is a longstanding one that again is manifested with the Ebola virus (Harrison 2014). "Othered" from "civilized" and healthy populations, the people that inhabited these "dangerous" and …
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Optimization of influenza antiviral response in Texas
Influenza pandemics pose a serious threat to the global population. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services in 2014, the Spanish flu of 1918 killed almost 100 million people worldwide and Simonsen, Spreeuwenberg, and Lustig in 2013 estimated that the Swine flu more …
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The Rhetoric of Blame: A Rhetorical Framing Analysis of Othering and Blame in Historical Health Crises
… pandemic was hallmarked by blame rhetoric and fluid social and political expedience. However, the pervasiveness of othering and blame in contemporary pandemic discourse is perhaps consistent with the blame rhetoric of health crises throughout history. Using a rhetorical framing analysis …
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"Send only your serious cases" : delivering flu to Toronto: an anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This project looks at the 1918-19 pandemic influenza experience in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Based on historical records (most notably death registries and archival material) this work strives to understand the social, biological, and environmental conditions that facilitated the spread of this …
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NS1 of H5N1 Interacts with SAP-97 in a PDZ-dependent Manner to Disrupt Epithelial Barrier Integrity
<p>The ability of influenza A virus to cause global pandemics has been a great concern throughout history and poses a serious health risk worldwide. Pandemic outbreaks throughout history, such as the Spanish flu of 1918, have claimed the lives of millions of people worldwide. The current outbreak …
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Modeling reduction of pandemic influenza using pharmaceutical and non pharmaceutical interventions in a heterogeneous population
In an event of a pandemic influenza outbreak such as the great "Spanish Flu" of 1918 and the more recent 2009-2010 H1N1 "Swine Flu" scare, pharmaceutical as well as non-pharmaceutical resources are limited in availability and effectiveness. In this thesis we apply OR methods to evaluate the …
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Arenaviruses: the Role of Antigen Presenting Cells (APC) in Persistence and Immunopathology
… were caused by viruses from smallpox to Spanish flu, Ebola (Public health emergency of international concern), SARS, West Nile, Zika and currently SARS-CoV-2 the aetiology of COVID19. At the centre of the virus-host interaction is a unique group of cells called the antigen presenting …