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The study also found that persons born in states with more severe exposure to the pandemic experienced worse outcomes than persons born in states with less severe exposure. [50] A notable example was Rosemary Kennedy , sister of 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy , who was born during the pandemic on September 23, 1918, and suffered from ...
Gatsby and George separately lament how American society has molded them ("America, She Breaks"). George shoots Gatsby dead before committing suicide. Later, the only attendees at Gatsby's funeral are Nick, a drunken party guest, and Gatsby's father, a Native American man who remains proud of his son despite their estrangement ("Pouring Down ...
A 2009 study in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses found that Spanish flu mortality simultaneously peaked within the two-month period of October and November 1918 in all fourteen European countries analyzed, which is inconsistent with the pattern that researchers would expect if the virus had originated somewhere in Europe and then spread ...
The 1918 influenza pandemic has been declared, according to Barry's text, as the 'deadliest plague in history'. The extensiveness of this declaration can be supported through the following statements: "the greatest medical holocaust in history" [2] and "the pandemic ranks with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics". [3]
1957–1958 influenza pandemic ('Asian flu') 1957–1958 Worldwide Influenza A virus subtype H2N2: 1–4 million [187] [203] [204] 1960–1962 Ethiopia yellow fever epidemic 1960–1962 Ethiopia: Yellow fever: 30,000 [205] Seventh cholera pandemic: 1961–present Worldwide Cholera (El Tor strain) 36,000 [citation needed] [206] Hong Kong flu ...
Scientists said the case is unrelated to the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in the United States that has so far infected three dairy farm workers. Mexico's Health Ministry also said in a statement the ...
The unidentified disease has infected at least 300 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since November 10, causing flu-like symptoms, that country’s health ministry told the BBC.
George Lopez's New Year Eve performance came to an abrupt end. On Dec. 31, the 60-year-old comedian was performing a stand-up set at the Muckleshoot Casino Resort in Auburn, Washington, when ...