What Really Happened during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? The Importance of Bacterial Secondary Infections
Open Access
- 1 December 2007
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 196 (11) , 1717-1718
- https://doi.org/10.1086/522355
Abstract
In many places, modern antivirals and strain-specific vaccines may be inaccessible and/or too costly—and other preventive methods (e.g., social distancing) mayKeywords
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