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Epidemiol Infect. 2012 May 8:1-4. [Epub ahead of print]
Pacific islands which escaped the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic and their subsequent mortality experiences.
Shanks GD, Brundage JF.
Source
Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, QLD Australia.
Abstract
SUMMARYVery few Pacific islands escaped the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. Subsequent influenza epidemics in the established colonial outposts of American Samoa and New Caledonia infected many but killed very few persons whereas the extraordinarily isolated Niue, Rotuma, Jaliut and Yule islands experienced high mortality influenza epidemics (>3% of population) following 1918. These dichotomous outcomes indicate that previous influenza exposure and degree of epidemiological isolation were important mortality risk factors during influenza epidemics on Pacific islands.
PMID:
22564320
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Pacific islands which escaped the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic and their subsequent mortality experiences.
Shanks GD, Brundage JF.
Source
Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, QLD Australia.
Abstract
SUMMARYVery few Pacific islands escaped the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. Subsequent influenza epidemics in the established colonial outposts of American Samoa and New Caledonia infected many but killed very few persons whereas the extraordinarily isolated Niue, Rotuma, Jaliut and Yule islands experienced high mortality influenza epidemics (>3% of population) following 1918. These dichotomous outcomes indicate that previous influenza exposure and degree of epidemiological isolation were important mortality risk factors during influenza epidemics on Pacific islands.
PMID:
22564320
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
