LEADER 02660oam 22004574a 450 001 9910480896503321 005 20211004152545.0 010 $a1-5261-5435-8 010 $a1-5261-2270-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000004836128 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5434453 035 $a(OCoLC)1240713426 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78501 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004836128 100 $a20200521d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStacking the coffins$eInfluenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918?19 /$fIda Milne 210 1$aManchester, U.K. :$cManchester University Press$d2020. 210 4$dİ2020. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 263 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 $a1-5261-2272-3 311 $a1-5261-2269-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 'mysterious malady' - or a 'perfect storm'? -- The flu: a news perspective -- Counting the ill and the dead -- 'Managing' the crisis -- The doctors' view: medical puzzle, politics and the search for cures -- Hospitals and other institutions: coping with crises -- Dying and surviving: eye witnesses -- Influenza as a political tool -- Epilogue: the long aftermath. 330 $aThe 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious disease epidemics like the corona virus COVID-19. It decimated families, silenced cities and towns as it passed through, stilled commerce, closed schools and public buildings and put normal life on hold. Sometimes it killed several members of the same family. Like COVID-19 there was no preventative vaccine for the virus, and many died from secondary bacterial pneumonia in this pre-antibiotic era. In this work, Ida Milne tells how it impacted on Ireland, during a time of war and revolution. But the stories she tells of the harrowing impact on families, and of medicine's desperate search to heal the ill, could apply to any other place in the world at the time. --$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aInfluenza Epidemic, 1918-1919$zIreland 607 $aIreland$2fast 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInfluenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 676 $a616.203 700 $aMilne$b Ida$0932711 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480896503321 996 $aStacking the coffins$92099113 997 $aUNINA