Volume 12, Number 1, January 2006
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics
Jeffery K. Taubenberger* and David M. Morens†
*Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, USA; and †National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Figure 2. "U-" and "W-" shaped combined influenza and pneumonia mortality, by age at death, per 100,000 persons in each age group, United States, 1911–1918. Influenza- and pneumonia-specific death rates are plotted for the interpandemic years 1911–1917 (dashed line) and for the pandemic year 1918 (solid line) (33,34). |
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