Quotes About Influenza

July the incidence of influenza in the AEF had reached its lowest point since early spring. Only 99 men died of flu and pneumonia that month, and the number was expected to be even lower

No other influenza before or since has had such a propensity for pneumonic complications. And pneumonia kills.

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.

That's what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed.

looked up and found the Great Bear. I told her, In Italy, they used to blame the influence of the constellations for making them sick—that's where influenza comes from. Bridie took that notion in stride. As if, when it's your time, your star gives you a yank—

influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed.

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The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people than the First World War—an estimated 3 to 6 per cent of the human race.

I told her, In Italy, they used to blame the influence of the constellations for making them sick—that's where influenza comes from.

looked up and found the Great Bear. I told her, In Italy, they used to blame the influence of the constellations for making them sick—that's where influenza comes from.

All rather humbling, she added ruefully. Here we are in the golden age of medicine - making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria - and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow.

Increase in Reports of Influenza. A masterpiece of understatement, as if it were only the reporting that had increased, or perhaps the pandemic was a figment of the collective imagination. I wondered whether it was the newspaper publisher's decision to play down the danger or if he'd received orders from above.

That's what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars.

That's what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle Stelle - the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought that illness proved that the heavens were governing their dates, that people were quite literally star-crossed.

Here we are in the golden age of medicine—making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria—and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow. No, you're the ones who matter right now. Attentive nurses, I mean—tender loving care, that seems to be all that's saving lives.

Antigenic shift generated the deadly 1918 influenza virus and the swine flu outbreak of 2009.

The 2009 "pandemic," which was not really a pandemic at all, taught us that language is both a weapon and a handicap when waging a campaign against influenza.

Today, influenza kills fewer than 0.1 percent of those who catch it. Nearly everyone recovers. In the 1918 pandemic most still recovered, but the death rate was twenty-five times greater. So many died in the U.S. that the average life expectancy in 1918 fell from fifty-one to thirty-nine years.

The history of the 1918 influenza pandemic is depressing reading. It's like watching a horror movie that you have seen before. You know who the killer is, but you can't jump in and save the victim.

Hopkirk, like many physicians of his day, also prescribed quinine to treat the flu. "In quinine," he wrote with great certainty, "we have a drug that not only controls fever-producing processes allied to fermentations, but also exerts a definite anti-toxic action on the specific virus of influenza itself.

We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery.

Haven't you ever heard of the 1918 flu pandemic? It killed more people than World War One and World War Two combined.

Influenza robbed countless youngsters of normal childhoods. For them, attending school had been a regular part of life. The pandemic, however, forced local authorities to decide whether to keep public schools open.