The following video lessons provide a background on Influenza, it's effect of history and the state of medicine leading up to 1918. This section is provided so that the viewer has an appropriate understanding of the scientific and social realities of the early 20th century, which is key to understanding how the disease spread and the attempts to prevent, treat and contain its spread.
Features
Tom Frieden, MD
Jeff Taubenberger, MD, PhD
Anthony Fauci, MD
Ann Schuchat, MD
John Barry
Content
- Overview of mortality
- Why the Spanish Flu is still relevant?
- Why was it so deadly?
What is the Flu?
Anthony Fauci, MD
Jeff Taubenberger, MD, PhP
Content
- The virus called “Influenza”
- How influenza is spread
- Where influenza originates
- How influenza adapts and jumps species
- Hemagglutinin & Neuraminidase
- RNA and mutation
- Vaccine effectiveness
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Influenza Through History, Pre-1918
Laura Spinney (Author: Pale Rider)
John Barry (Author: The Great Influenza)
Content
- Origin of the word “influenza”
- Evolution of Crowd Diseases
- Hippocrates and the term "epidemic"
- Possible flu epidemics throughout history
- Possible flu pandemics throughout history
- European immunity and “Imperial Diseases”
Evolution of Medicine
Laura Spinney (Author: Pale Rider)
John Barry (Author: The Great Influenza)
Content
- The 4 Humors & Miasma
- Chemical Theory and Germ Theory of Medicine
- American Medical Revolution
- Johns Hopkins Medical School
- Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
- Disease Surveillance
- Turn of the 20th Century- A Golden Age of Medicine?
- Mistaken belief that influenza was caused by bacteria
Measles Epidemic - A Dry Run for the Spanish Flu
John Barry (Author: The Great Influenza)
Laura Spinney (Author: Pale Rider)
- Measles outbreak in US Army camps leads to infectious disease protocols
- Gorka "WW1-first war in which more soldiers die of wounds than disease"
- Quarantine procedures put in place, but not uniformly enforced
- Best minds and facilities in medicine are recruited for war effort
- War-effort Demands over-ride concerns of medical professionals
The Political Situation in the US
John Barry (Author: The Great Influenza)
Content
- President Wilson
- The War Effort and Patriotism
- Sedition Act
- Committee for Public Information
- 4 Minute Men
- Loss of Civil Liberties
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