Dr Montizambert and the 1918-1919 Spanish influenza pandemic in Canada.
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We have experienced the first 2 waves of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. The current virus, like the 1918 virus, was passed directly from a pig to a human. The subsequent human-tohuman spread in the current pandemic has had a fatal effect on patients with concurrent illnesses, on the young and healthy who have little or no immunity, and on those who succumb to an overwhelming immune response, the so-called cytokine storm. How does the pandemic of today differ from its infamous predecessor? And what has happened in the interim?
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
دوره 56 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010