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Apr 30, 2021 · In 1957, the U.S. rose to the challenge of the ‘Asian flu’ with stoicism and a high tolerance for risk, offering a stark contrast with today’s approach to Covid-19. Scenes from America in ...
Public Health and Medical Responses to the 1957-58 Influenza Pandemic. D. A. Henderson, Brooke Courtney, Thomas V. Inglesby, Eric Toner, and Jennifer B. Nuzzo. As the U.S. prepares to respond this fall and winter to pandemic (H1N1) 2009, a review of the 1957-58 pandemic of Asian influenza (H2N2) could be useful for planning purposes because ...
Asian influenza during the 1957 epidemic. Of these, more than 5.5 million were attended by their doctors. About 14 000 people died of the immediate effects of their attack.’ 3 Not only was £10 000 000 spent on sickness benefit, but also with factories, offices and mines closed the economy was hit: ‘Setback in Production — “Recession ...
Jan 7, 2021 · The History of the Forgotten Pandemic. In spring 1957, tens of thousands of refugees in Hong Kong fell ill with a novel strain of the flu. The virus would spread around the world, the first global outbreak since the 1918 flu pandemic and the first test of a fledgling early warning system. More than one million people died, 116,000 of them in ...
The 1977 Russian flu was an influenza pandemic that was first reported by the Soviet Union in 1977 and lasted until 1979. [1] [2] The outbreak in northern China started in May 1977, slightly earlier than that in the Soviet Union. [3] [4] The pandemic mostly affected a population younger than 25 or 26 years of age, [1] [5] [6] and was described ...
Some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains that had been circulating since 1957. The pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays in the Northern Hemisphere, thus limiting the infection's spread. Improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill.
Jan 25, 2013 · The Asian flu of 1957 was the first new strain of influenza virus to emerge and ravage the world since the dreadful Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Asian flu is also known as H2N2, named after a ...
