FluWeb Influenza Historical Resources Database

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http://influenza.sph.unimelb.edu.au/

Here's a link to the FluWeb at the University of Melbourne, Australia. It is a 600 page document detailing the 1918 Pandemic Flu and may offer a glimpse of what we are in store for.

 

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An excerpt on pregnant women in the USA during the 2nd wave:

In Chicago, as elsewhere, the serious effects of the influenza
epidemic on pregnant women, especially when complicated by
pneumonia, was noted. For instance, in one of the hospitals of
the district, of 101 cases where pregnant women developed
pneumonia during the epidemic, 52 died, giving a case mortality
of 51.4 per cent., as compared with 719 deaths in 2,154 cases
of pneumonia in non-pregnant women, giving a case mortality
rate of 33 per cent. ; 73 per cent of the pregnant women died
within 48 hours of admission to hospital. It is, therefore,
concluded that the influenza death rate is materially higher in
pregnant women than in those who are not pregnant. If
abortion or miscarriage follow upon the influenza attack, the
chances of recovery are very small. If, however, the attack
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does not result in premature emptying of the uterus, there is a
better prospect of recovery.

 

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An excerpt on the effect of the pandemic flu in the 1st wave on Native Americans or First People (called American Indians at that time)

Influenza among the American Indians.
During the period from 1st October 1918 to 31st March
1919, out of a total Indian population of 304,854, there were
reported 73,651 cases of influenza with 6,270 deaths, giving a
fatality rate of 8.5 per cent. The reporting of the attacks is
probably incomplete but the figures given above show that the
epidemic was severe among the American Indians. The
mortality varied in different localities especially being high
among the Indians of the Mountain States (Arizona, Colorado,
Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming). O
a total Indian population in these Mountain States of 91,475, the
attacks numbered 32,285 and of these 3,553 or 11 per cent,
died. The highest mortality occurred among the Indians in
Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. These figures are taken from
a statement furnished to the U.S. Public Health Service
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by the Office of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior.*
A second wave of influenza developed among the Indian
population in April 1919.

 

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Chile (spelled Chilli in 1919)

"CHILLI"
"Very little has been heard from Chili as to the influenza
epidemic there, beyond the fact recorded in the press that a
serious outbreak had occurred during the autumn of 1918 in
the republic. The Argentine press referred, in January 1919,
to this outbreak, stating that nowhere in South America had the
influenza epidemic created such ravages as at Santiago de Chili,
but so far no official report is available."

I'm very concerned about what's been happening there this last week. Does anyone have a historical account of Chile that is written in English?