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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video focuses on the activities of public health professionals and their partners as they illustrate the stages of emergency management: prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response to the disaster, and recovery following the disaster. Although these stages may be applicable with respect to any type of disaster, they are illustrated in this video by the example of the 2010 pandemic influenza outbreak (H1N1). Health professionals outline...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her mother or something more sinister? When the frozen body of...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
At the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, and then exploded worldwide, killing as many as 100 million people. It killed more in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. It killed many more people than COVID-19, especially those who were young and otherwise healthy. This book, adapted...
Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer grew up listening to her grandfather, Dr. Pierre Sartor, describing his remarkable life, including his collaboration with Mayo Clinic, which spanned several decades. Long after Dr. Sartor died, Beth found a handwritten memoir of his experiences caring for patients during the influenza pandemic of 1918 nestled among other family documents in a lockbox. Thus began the journey. Beth used her skills as a journalist to discover...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With two brothers fighting in the Great War, Gemma Dorgan's life is filled with worries. But when the Spanish Flu hits Philadelphia, the Dorgan family faces their own battle of sorts at home."--
Author
Publisher
Ullstein
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Deutsch
Description
"In der kleinen mexikanischen Stadt Linares erzählt man sich noch immer von dem Tag, an dem die alte Nana Reja ein Baby unter einer Brücke gefunden hat. Von einem Bienenschwarm umhüllt, erweckt der kleine Simonopio zunächst Misstrauen bei den abergläubischen Dorfbewohnern. Doch die Gutsbesitzer Francisco und Beatriz Morales nehmen den wilden stummen Jungen bei sich auf und lieben ihn wie ihr eigenes Kind. Während die Spanische Grippe die Region...
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