The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918–20: An interpretative survey in the time of COVID-19

Athukorala, Prema‐chandra; Athukorala, Chaturica

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2020/881-8

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“…One of the reasons the outbreak subsided later was the weather in India. In humid settings, the influenza virus cannot survive and cannot spread [83][84][85].…”

Section: Influenza (1918-1920)mentioning

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A Review on Viral Outbreak in India with Special Reference to COVID-19

Khamari¹,

Khamari²,

Mishra³

et al. 2023

Viral Outbreaks - Global Impact and Newer Horizons

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COVID-19, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and SARS are three severe pandemics linked to novel coronaviruses that have so far impacted people in the twenty first century. These acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are brought on by viruses that are all exceedingly contagious and/or have caused large mortality. On January 7, 2020, a patient in Wuhan, China, with pneumonia-like symptoms had a novel coronavirus found in lung fluid. In 1980, the smallpox disease was formally deemed extinct worldwide. The cause of smallpox is unknown. The discovery of smallpox-like lesions on Egyptian mummies indicates that the illness has existed for at least 3000 years. The Ebola virus, a member of the filovirus family that affects both humans and other primates, causes the severe illness known as Ebola virus disease (EVD). The idea that swine influenza was a sickness related to human flu was originally put forth when pigs were ill during the 1918 flu pandemic at the same time as humans. Because viruses vary in their structural, anatomical, and molecular makeup, distinct viral diseases can be detected or tested using different methodologies, procedures, or diagnostic tools. Viral vaccines come in a wide variety of varieties in the pharmaceutical industry. From a medical perspective, several treatments are used for various viral illnesses.

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“…One of the reasons the outbreak subsided later was the weather in India. In humid settings, the influenza virus cannot survive and cannot spread [83][84][85].…”

Section: Influenza (1918-1920)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review on Viral Outbreak in India with Special Reference to COVID-19

Khamari¹,

Khamari²,

Mishra³

et al. 2023

Viral Outbreaks - Global Impact and Newer Horizons

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“…Surprisingly, during the past century there has not been that much research on the economics of the 1918–1920 Influenza pandemic. Most of the existing economic research on the 1918 Influenza pandemic has been focused mostly on the pandemic's impacts on epidemiology/demography, including the impact of economic variables such as trade networks on the disease's spread—for surveys of this literature, see Arthi and Parman (2021), Athukorala and Athukorala (2020), Beach, Clay, et al (2022), and Noy and Uher (2022). The one notable exception, in Economics, has been a burgeoning literature on the “foetal origins” hypothesis that followed from a seminal paper by Almond (2006).…”

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The Japanese textile sector and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1920

Okubo

Strobl

2023

Journal of Regional Science

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The ongoing global pandemic has brought into sharp relief the possible interactions between the epidemiology of a virus, the structure of the economy and society that becomes exposed to it, and the actions chosen by government, individuals, and communities to combat it or ameliorate its economic impact. Surprisingly, there has not been sufficient research on these economic and policy interactions of the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic—the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century. This paper focuses on Japan, which as a minor participant of and was not directly affected by World War I. We exploit the diversity of experiences with the pandemic and its attendant policy responses across Japanese prefectures; and investigate the importance of the pandemic's toll (measured by excess mortality), and of nonpharmaceutical policy interventions (NPIs), in determining the pandemic's economic impact. We do so by focusing on the production and employment in the textile sector, given the availability of data and the general importance of the textile sector for emerging economies (as Japan was at the time). We find a significant adverse impact of the pandemic on textiles (almost 30% for an average prefectural excess mortality shock) and indeed find that the implemented NPIs were effective in ameliorating around one half of the pandemic's adverse economic consequences, especially for textile output (rather than employment). Furthermore, these NPIs were more effective when the excess mortality was higher. In this case, there was no trade‐off between money and life, but rather the two were complimentary.

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The Covid-19 Pandemic and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: A General Overview

Adeola

2021

Gendered Perspectives on Covid-19 Recovery in Africa

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The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918–20: An interpretative survey in the time of COVID-19

Cited by 4 publications

References 64 publications

A Review on Viral Outbreak in India with Special Reference to COVID-19

A Review on Viral Outbreak in India with Special Reference to COVID-19

The Japanese textile sector and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1920

The Covid-19 Pandemic and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: A General Overview

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