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<blockquote data-quote="rod" data-source="post: 4461965" data-attributes="member: 5382"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications</strong></span></p><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Barry%20JM%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=14733617" target="_blank"><u>John M Barry</u></a><u><img src="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/pmc/pmcgifs/corrauth.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></u></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>John M Barry</strong></span></p><p>Distinguished Visiting Scholar, the Center for Bioenvironmental Research of Tulane and Xavier Universities, New Orleans, Louisiana USA</p><p></p><p>Find articles by <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Barry%20JM%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=14733617" target="_blank"><u>John M Barry</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/#" target="_blank"><u>Author information</u></a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/#" target="_blank"><u>Article notes</u></a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/#" target="_blank"><u>Copyright and License information</u></a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/disclaimer/" target="_blank"><u>Disclaimer</u></a></p><p>Distinguished Visiting Scholar, the Center for Bioenvironmental Research of Tulane and Xavier Universities, New Orleans, Louisiana USA</p><p>John M Barry, Email: <a href="mailto:dev@null"><u>ude.enalut@yrrabj</u></a>.</p><p><img src="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/pmc/pmcgifs/corrauth.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Corresponding author.</p><p>Received 2004 Jan 11; Accepted 2004 Jan 20.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Influenza, Bacterial Meningitis, Influenza Pandemic, Public Health Official, Influenza Outbreak</p><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/copyright/" target="_blank"><u>Copyright</u></a> © Barry; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2004, This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.</p><p>This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.</p><p>This article has been <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/citedby/" target="_blank"><u>cited by</u></a> other articles in PMC.</p><p></p><p>The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic killed more people than any other outbreak of disease in human history. The lowest estimate of the death toll is 21 million, while recent scholarship estimates from 50 to 100 million dead. World population was then only 28% what is today, and most deaths occurred in a sixteen week period, from mid-September to mid-December of 1918.</p><p></p><p>It has never been clear, however, where this pandemic began. Since influenza is an endemic disease, not simply an epidemic one, it is impossible to answer this question with absolute certainty. Nonetheless, in seven years of work on a history of the pandemic, this author conducted an extensive survey of contemporary medical and lay literature searching for epidemiological evidence – the only evidence available. That review suggests that <strong>the most likely site of origin was Haskell County, Kansas,</strong> an isolated and sparsely populated county in the southwest corner of the state, in January 1918 [<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/#CR1" target="_blank"><u>1</u></a>]. If this hypothesis is correct, it has public policy implications.</p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong>Well I guess there may be some truth to it.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rod, post: 4461965, member: 5382"] [SIZE=6][B]The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications[/B][/SIZE] [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Barry%20JM%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=14733617'][U]John M Barry[/U][/URL][U][IMG]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/pmc/pmcgifs/corrauth.gif[/IMG][/U] [SIZE=4][B]John M Barry[/B][/SIZE] Distinguished Visiting Scholar, the Center for Bioenvironmental Research of Tulane and Xavier Universities, New Orleans, Louisiana USA Find articles by [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Barry%20JM%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=14733617'][U]John M Barry[/U][/URL] [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/#'][U]Author information[/U][/URL] [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/#'][U]Article notes[/U][/URL] [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/#'][U]Copyright and License information[/U][/URL] [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/disclaimer/'][U]Disclaimer[/U][/URL] Distinguished Visiting Scholar, the Center for Bioenvironmental Research of Tulane and Xavier Universities, New Orleans, Louisiana USA John M Barry, Email: [EMAIL='dev@null'][U]ude.enalut@yrrabj[/U][/EMAIL]. [IMG]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/pmc/pmcgifs/corrauth.gif[/IMG]Corresponding author. Received 2004 Jan 11; Accepted 2004 Jan 20. [B]Keywords: [/B]Influenza, Bacterial Meningitis, Influenza Pandemic, Public Health Official, Influenza Outbreak [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/copyright/'][U]Copyright[/U][/URL] © Barry; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2004, This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. This article has been [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/citedby/'][U]cited by[/U][/URL] other articles in PMC. The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic killed more people than any other outbreak of disease in human history. The lowest estimate of the death toll is 21 million, while recent scholarship estimates from 50 to 100 million dead. World population was then only 28% what is today, and most deaths occurred in a sixteen week period, from mid-September to mid-December of 1918. It has never been clear, however, where this pandemic began. Since influenza is an endemic disease, not simply an epidemic one, it is impossible to answer this question with absolute certainty. Nonetheless, in seven years of work on a history of the pandemic, this author conducted an extensive survey of contemporary medical and lay literature searching for epidemiological evidence – the only evidence available. That review suggests that [B]the most likely site of origin was Haskell County, Kansas,[/B] an isolated and sparsely populated county in the southwest corner of the state, in January 1918 [[URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/#CR1'][U]1[/U][/URL]]. If this hypothesis is correct, it has public policy implications. [B]Well I guess there may be some truth to it.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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