Age-Specific Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Unravelling the Mystery of High Young Adult Mortality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Gagnon, Alain ^a   Miller, Matthew S ^b   Hallman, Stacey A ^c   Bourbeau, Robert ^a   Herring, D Ann ^d   Earn, David J D ^d,e   Madrenas, Joaquín ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1977 RUSSIAN INFLUENZA; AGE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMAN; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SPANISH INFLUENZA; T LYMPHOCYTE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881104450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069586     Document Type: Article

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