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 3. Influenza plus pneumonia (P&I) (combined) age-specific incidence rates per 1,000 persons per age group (panel A), death rates per 1,000 persons, ill and well combined (panel B), and case-fatality rates (panel C, solid line), US Public Health Service house-to-house surveys, 8 states, 1918 (36). A more typical curve of age-specific influenza case-fatality (panel C, dotted line) is taken from US Public Health Service surveys during 1928–1929 (37). |
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