Sentences with phrase «deaths during pandemics»

«Secondary bacterial infections cause much of the sickness and about 25 percent of all deaths during the flu season, and 50 to 95 percent of deaths during pandemics of influenza,» says Jonathan McCullers, an infectious disease specialist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and co-author of a study that suggests a new way of treating such conditions.

Not exact matches

A new method for swiftly producing proteins to fight infections could mean the difference between life and death during future pandemics.

They calculated the number of deaths from the flu in each country by subtracting the average death rate during the pandemic years from those of the years before and after.

The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is one of the deadliest pathogens in human history, sparking three major pandemics: the Plague of Justinian, which struck the Roman Empire during the 6th and 8th centuries; the second plague pandemic, which first erupted in Europe in the mid-14th-century Black Death and continued to strike the continent in recurrent outbreaks until the mid-18th century; and the third plague pandemic, which emerged in China during the late 19th century.

There is now evidence that the drug saved lives during the 2009 swine flu pandemic (see «Evidence that Tamiflu reduces deaths in pandemic flu «-RRB-.

My fascination with the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 began during a bout of genealogy, which found me paging through Philadelphia death certificates.

Swine flu first proposed to be a disease related to human influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic, known as Spanish flu, it infected about 500 million resulting in 50 million deaths.

The «swine flu» or H1N1 pandemic caused between 151,700 to 575,400 deaths globally during 2009 and 2010, according to the CDC reports.