RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES KARNATAKA ...

A historical study conducted to find the epidemiological evidence of an early wave of the 1918 influenza pandemic in New York City on the basis of mortality statistics from New York City health department records showed that the 1918 “Spanish flu” was the fastest spreading and most deadly influenza pandemic in recorded history killing > 6,75,000 people in the United States) and 40-100 million worldwide, with the majority of deaths occurring … ................
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