Some Clinical Observations on the Influenza Epidemic at Camp Upton

Lyon, Irving Phillips; Tenney, Charles F.; Szerlip, L

doi:10.1001/jama.1919.02610240014004

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“…For example, although the virus is suspected to have first emerged in a small community in Haskell, Kansas, the devastating nature of the pathogen was not fully identified until it spread to Camp Funston-the second largest cantonment in the United States that housed approximately 56,000 recruits-infecting thousands of men. 23 From this location, the disease moved rapidly across the United States before then spreading internationally, carried by military personnel as they traveled between training camps before being deployed overseas. 24 As Burnet noted, the dissemination of the pathogen was ''intimately related to war conditions and especially the arrival of American troops in France.''…”

Section: Pre-1918 Influenza Pandemics and Militariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Watterson

Kamradt‐Scott

2015

Armed Forces & Society

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The growing trend toward the securitization of infectious disease has legitimated a role for national militaries in responding to public health crises. This apparent “militarization” of health has met with resistance from the health and security sectors alike, who argue that it risks politicizing health outcomes while also draining limited military resources. This article attempts to place such concerns within the broader historical context of military involvement in public health. With specific reference to pandemic influenza—a disease of great historical import and a current policy priority in the context of securitized global public health—this article details the pedigree of military involvement in fighting the disease and draws on the established record to demonstrate the role that militaries can play in improving public health outcomes. The article argues for an ongoing military role in the global fight against pandemic influenza, both in augmenting civil influenza programs and in improving their own preparation and response mechanisms for future pandemics.

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Section: Pre-1918 Influenza Pandemics and Militariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Watterson

Kamradt‐Scott

2015

Armed Forces & Society

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“…If his mind was clear he expressed a sense of euphoria, or of unnatural realization of his condition, which in particular marked the advanced stages of the disease." 21 Private James Downs entered the hospital on September 23 with a temperature of 104 degrees and died three days later. An Army pathologist clipped a piece of Downs' lungs and sent it to the Army Medical Museum as a specimen of the damage influenza was doing to young soldiers.…”

Section: Influenza In the Campsmentioning

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“…That sight, they said, "will haunt for life the minds of those who saw it." 21 In efforts to contain the outbreak, Camp Upton's commander John Mallory put its 30,000 inhabitants under quarantine, barring travel in and out except on "the most urgent business." 23 But in wars and epidemics there is much urgent business and people got through.…”

Section: Influenza In the Campsmentioning

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The U.S. Military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919

Byerly

2010

Public Health Rep

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SYNOPSISThe American military experience in World War I and the influenza pandemic were closely intertwined. The war fostered influenza in the crowded conditions of military camps in the United States and in the trenches of the Western Front in Europe. The virus traveled with military personnel from camp to camp and across the Atlantic, and at the height of the American military involvement in the war, September through November 1918, influenza and pneumonia sickened 20% to 40% of U.S. Army and Navy personnel. These high morbidity rates interfered with induction and training schedules in the United States and rendered hundreds of thousands of military personnel non-effective. During the American Expeditionary Forces' campaign at Meuse-Argonne, the epidemic diverted urgently needed resources from combat support to transporting and caring for the sick and the dead. Influenza and pneumonia killed more American soldiers and sailors during the war than did enemy weapons.

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The Simulation of Meningitis by Influenza

Stangl¹

1919

JAMA

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Some Clinical Observations on the Influenza Epidemic at Camp Upton

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The U.S. Military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919

The Simulation of Meningitis by Influenza

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