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Editorial
. 2012 Feb;18(2):332-5.
doi: 10.3201/eid1802.111409.

1918 influenza, a puzzle with missing pieces

David M Morens, Jeffery K Taubenberger
Editorial

1918 influenza, a puzzle with missing pieces

David M Morens et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Feb.
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Combined influenza plus pneumonia (P&I) age-specific incidence, mortality, and case-fatality rates, per 1,000 persons/age group, US Public Health Service house-to-house surveys, 8 states, 1918, and US Public Health Service surveys during 1928–1929. A) P&I incidence for 1918; B) mortality rate for 1918 (ill and well persons combined); C) P&I case-fatality rates for 1918 (solid line) compared with a more typical curve of age-specific influenza case-fatality rates (dotted line) from 1928–1929. Reprinted from (3).
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