Overcrowding and mortality during the influenza pandemic of 1918: Evidence from US Army Camp A. A. Humphreys, Virginia

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 642-644

  Andrew Aligne, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROWDING (AREA); HISTORY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WAR;

CROWDING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PANDEMICS; UNITED STATES; WORLD WAR I;

EID: 84961675373     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.303018     Document Type: Review

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