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“To try to prevent some of these problems, in 2015 the World Health Organization issued guidelines stipulating that disease names should not make reference to specific places, people, animals or food.”
― Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
― Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
“Most of the death occurred in the thirteen weeks between mid-September and mid-December 1918. It was broad in space and shallow in time, compared to a narrow, deep war.”
― Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
― Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
“People said love was the antidote to hate, that it could mend what was most broken, and give hope in the most hopeless of times.”
― The World That We Knew
― The World That We Knew
“Cordon sanitaire. Isolation. Quarantine. These are age-old concepts that human beings have been putting into practice since long before they understood the nature of the agents of contagion, long before they even considered epidemics to be acts of God. In fact, we may have had strategies for distancing ourselves from sources of infection since before we were strictly human.”
― Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
― Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
“It was a fascinating hint that flu might have a heritable component, but other studies failed to replicate the finding. Then in January 2011, in the midst of the annual flu season in France, a two-year-old girl was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris, suffering from ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome). Doctors saved her life, and one of them, Jean-Laurent Casanova, sequenced her genome. He wanted to know if it held the key to why an otherwise healthy child had nearly died of a disease that most children shrug off. It turned out that the girl had inherited a genetic defect that meant she was unable to produce interferon, that all-important first-line defence against viruses. As a result, her besieged immune system went straight to plan B: a massive inflammatory response similar to the one pathologists saw in 1918.”
― Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
― Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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