COMPULSORY INOCULATION AGAINST SPANISH INFLUENZA.

Pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine protects against 1918 Spanish influenza virus

The 1918 influenza A virus caused the most devastating pandemic, killing approximately 50 million people worldwide. Immunization with 1918-like and classical swine H1N1 virus vaccines results in cross-protective antibodies against the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza, indicating antigenic similarities among these viruses. In this study, we demonstrate that vaccination with the 2009 pandemic H1N1 va...

Spanish Influenza in Mashhad from 1918 to 1920

Spanish flu was one of the harshest historical pandemics in the northeastern Iran, which killed many local people. Its first outbreak in Mashhad dates back to August 3 and 4, 1918. This disease continued until 1920 in successive waves. The death toll of this disease in Mashhad (with a population of 100,000 people at the time) was possibly as high as 3,500. Moreover, this disease caused outbreak...

Protective Inoculation against Cholera

of anti-cholera vaccine. It is divided into three parts, viz., the preparation of an anti-cholera vaccine, immunization of man against cholera and the anti-cholera vaccine after its devitalisation. It is pointed out that such is the variability of the germ of cholera that it is essential to first select the particular variety of the germ which is to be selected as " authenic and appropriate." W...

Inoculation against Preventable Diseases

Preventive Inoculation against Enteric Fever