Overcrowding and Mortality During the Influenza Pandemic of 1918
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Observations on mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
The original purpose of our study was to examine the unusual W-shaped mortality curve associated with the 1918 influenza pandemic and possibly explain the peak in mortality among individuals aged 20-40 years. We plotted age-specific excess mortality instead of total mortality for the 1918 pandemic using a 5-year baseline. For comparison, we also graphed excess mortality curves for the 1957 and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2015.303018