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Influenza and Some Related Mathematical Models

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Part of the book series: Biomathematics ((BIOMATHEMATICS,volume 18))

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Despite advances in biology and medical science that have controlled many severe infectious diseases, influenza remains a recurrent problem, initiating new global pandemics because of its ability to change its form. In 1918–1919, an influenza pandemic (Spanish flu) killed about 20 million people and infected perhaps 2 billion. The special feature of this pandemic was a tendency towards bronchopneumonic complications fatal to previously healthy young adults. In Philadelphia, people were dying so quickly that bodies were stacked by the hundreds in temporary morgues, awaiting burial. Such horrible mortality caused tremendous social and economic disruption, and stimulated intensive research into the cause of the disease (Beveridge, 1977).

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  1. Section of Ecology and Systematics and Environmental Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-0239, USA

    Simon A. Levin

  2. Department of Mathematics and Graduate Program in Ecology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996-1300, USA

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Liu, Wm., Levin, S.A. (1989). Influenza and Some Related Mathematical Models. In: Levin, S.A., Hallam, T.G., Gross, L.J. (eds) Applied Mathematical Ecology. Biomathematics, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61317-3_10

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