Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Thanksgiving Is National Family History Day

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Note: This is an updated (including new links ) version of my yearly post on National Family History Day .   # 9375   Eve...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Are Influenza Pandemic Viruses Members Of An Exclusive Club?

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Credit - HHS Interim Pre-Pandemic Planning Guidence: Community Strategy For Pandemic Influenza Mitigation In the United States .   # ...
Monday, November 04, 2013

Professor Peter Doherty On Pandemics & History

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Credit Wikipedia     # 7933   Laureate Professor Peter C. Doherty (who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for medicine for his work i...
Monday, January 07, 2013

EID Journal: A Brief History Of Quarantine

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  Photo Credit CDC PHIL   # 6832   Although controversial, and often misunderstood, quarantines have a long and successful hist...
Friday, December 14, 2012

The 1919 Influenza Blues . . .

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  Arhoolie F-1018   Released in the 1960s Essie Jenkins et al.     # 6782       As it’s Friday, and some of my other in...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

University of Michigan: Influenza Encyclopedia 1918-1919

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The Motor Corps of St. Louis chapter of the American Red Cross on ambulance duty during the influenza epidemic, October 1918. Photo Credit...
Monday, October 08, 2012

Diary From The HMNZ Tahiti During The 1918 Pandemic

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Troop Ship Tahiti in Wellington Harbor, circa 1918-19  Unknown Photographer   # 6617   For years historians, epidemiologists, and...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Novel Viruses & Chekhov’s Gun

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    # 6475     Although the attribution is suspect, there is an old adage in literary circles – credited most often to Russian ...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Pseudo Pandemics And Viral Interlopers

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    # 5978     With the recent detections of a novel trH3N2 virus (see MMWR dispatch ) among a handful of people across four stat...
Thursday, January 06, 2011

UK: Revisiting An Earlier Flu Epidemic

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      # 5207     As the UK struggles with a serious outbreak of influenza, the Guardian.co.uk   newspaper has reprinted a 60 yea...