See on Scoop.it – Virology News
I am TRYING to write an eBook on influenza, which stubbornly refuses to be finished – as part of a sabbatical project, which finished in December 2010. So, like my History of Virology, I am triall…
Ed Rybicki‘s insight:
I will reprise this post, given a considerable recent spike in interest in it as the new H7N9 Shanghai bird flu starts. Hopefully to fizzle out, but you never know….
Incidentally, I have an almost-finished iBook (for iPad) on influenza: the first five respondents to this post can trial it for free!
See on rybicki.wordpress.com
ViroBlogy 
12 April, 2013 at 09:54 |
I’d love to give it a read!
7 August, 2014 at 18:06 |
old books were becoming available as ebooks in the recent years …
so I read already some flu-history …
what bothers me most : was there flu in England between 1870
and 1888, (that gave immunity for 1918) ?
18 August, 2014 at 09:41 |
That is an issue for speculation – and given what happened with H1N1pdm – that is, the elderly were NOT much at risk – it is quite likely. Because the curve should not have been W-shaped, and a LOT more elderly would normally have died, if there was no immunity in that group specifically.