Did the 1918 flu virus cause the Black Death?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 986-987

  Altschuler, Eric Lewin ^a   Kariuki, Yvonne M ^b  

^a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLISTER; COUGHING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEVER; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LETTER; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; PANDEMIC; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; YERSINIA PESTIS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PLAGUE;

EID: 53949111820     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.07.011     Document Type: Letter

References (1)

1. Scott S., and Duncan C.J. Biology of plagues: evidence from historical populations (2001), Cambridge University Press, New York