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The Humanities of Contagion: How Literary and Visual Representations of the “Spanish” Flu Pandemic Complement, Complicate and Calibrate COVID-19 Narratives

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2023
My article examines how literary and visual representations of the “Spanish” Flu contagion foreshadow and generate critical discourses about pandemics. D.H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox characterises paranoia about biological abnormality and loss of agency
Welang Nahum
doaj   +1 more source

Comparing the loss of life expectancy at birth during the 2020 and 1918 pandemics in six European countries

open access: yesVienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic that reached Europe in 2020 has often been compared to the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. In this article, we compare the two pandemics in terms of their respective impacts on the loss of life expectancy at birth in six ...
Valentin Rousson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Spanish Flu Pandemic and Income Distribution in Java: Lessons from the 1920s

open access: yesJurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 2022
Covid-19 pandemic has renewed the debate over economic inequality as well as the relative importance of policies for saving lives vs. protecting livelihoods during times of crisis.
A. G. Brata   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spanish Flu in Tehran from 1918 to 1920.

open access: yesArchives of Iranian medicine, 2022
The Spanish flu spread from September 23, 1918 to 1920. This disease was one of the historical catastrophes in Iran, and a large number of people in Tehran were infected.
S. Golshani   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Totengräber der Monarchie? Die Spanische Grippe und die politische Transformation in Sachsen 1918/19

open access: yesTotalitarismus und Demokratie, 2022
The Spanish flu was a global health crisis of enormous extent and consequences. This disease hit Saxony at a time of social, economic and political challenges.
Mike Schmeitzner, Hans-Martin Behrisch
doaj   +1 more source

Passive immunity to pandemic H1N1 2009 by swine flu parties

open access: yesJournal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2009
The general population is concerned about the probable devastating effects of pandemic H1N1 2009.  Based upon the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, scientific publications and theories, the idea of swine flu parties to achieve passive immunity against pandemic ...
Nitish Aggarwal, Pushkar Aggarwal
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemics in Serbia during the wars 1912-1918.: Contribution to victim quantification [PDF]

open access: yesBaština, 2022
The aim of this paper is to point out the part of different epidemics in the reduction of population in Serbia during the First and Second Balkan Wars (1912 - 1913) and the First World War (1914 - 1918).
Krivošejev Vladimir A.
doaj   +1 more source

COVID 19 and Spanish flu pandemics: All it changes, nothing changes. [PDF]

open access: yesActa Biomed, 2020
The Corona Virus 19 (COVID 19) epidemic is an infectious disease which was declared as a pandemic and hit all the Countries, all over the world, from the beginning of the year 2020.
Franchini AF   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

On the Nature of the Strong Emission-Line Galaxies in Cluster Cl 0024+1654: Are Some the Progenitors of Low Mass Spheroidals? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
We present new size, line ratio, and velocity width measurements for six strong emission-line galaxies in the galaxy cluster, Cl 0024+1654, at redshift z~0.4.
Babul A.   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

A Game of Infection – Song of Respiratory Viruses and Interferons

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
Humanity has experienced four major pandemics since the twentieth century, with the 1918 Spanish flu, the 2002 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the 2009 swine flu, and the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemics having the most important ...
Guo Qiang Wang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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