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Résumé : Un tour du monde des virus qui émergent, des animaux qui les transmettent et des humains qui s'en protègent. Pour l'auteur, la grippe suscite des émotions collectives parce qu'elle envisage l'arrêt possible de la circulation des êtres vivants. Un horizon catastrophique qui ouvre de nouvelles perspectives sur les relations entre les hommes et les animaux dans les sociétés globalisées.

Résumé : In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive waves, from 1918 to 1919, influenza killed more than 50 million people. German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers referred to it as Flanders Grippe, but world-wide, the pandemic gained the notorious title of “Spanish Flu”. Nowhere on earth escaped: the United States recorded 550,000 deaths (five times its total military fatalities in the war) while European deaths totaled over two million. Amid the war, some governments suppressed news of the outbreak. Even as entire battalions were decimated, with both the Allies and the Germans suffering massive casualties, the details of many servicemen’s deaths were hidden to protect public morale. Meanwhile, civilian families were being struck down in their homes. The City of Philadelphia ran out of gravediggers and coffins, and mass burial trenches had to be excavated with steam shovels. Spanish Flu conjured up the specter of the Black Death of 1348 and the great plague of 1665, while the medical profession, shattered after five terrible years of conflict, lacked the resources to contain and defeat this new enemy. Through primary and archival sources, historian Catharine Arnold gives readers the first truly global account of the terrible epidemic. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : En retraçant l'histoire de l'épidémie de grippe espagnole qui frappe la France à la fin de la Grande Guerre, l'historien dessine le portrait de cette pandémie plus destructrice que le conflit en cours et évalue les mesures de prévention insuffisantes afin d'anticiper des risques sanitaires pour les générations futures. ©Electre 2018

Résumé : Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Des explications illustrées sur les virus, leurs mutations et les pandémies qu'ils peuvent causer à travers l'exemple de la grippe au cours de l'histoire. ©Electre 2021

Résumé : When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated forty million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the US population with it, 1.5 million Americans would die. In Flu, Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. From Alaska to Norway, from the streets of Hong Kong to the corridors of the White House, Kolata tracks the race to recover the live pathogen and probes the fear that has impelled government policy. A gripping work of science writing, Flu addresses the prospects for a great epidemic’s recurrence and considers what can be done to prevent it. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : L'histoire de la grippe espagnole, dont l'épidémie s'est déclarée en 1918 et a causé plus de décès en un an que la peste noire en un siècle. L'auteur revient sur les premiers cas identifiés au sein d'une unité militaire au Kansas et sa propagation à la planète entière, dont sa diffusion en Europe avec l'arrivée des troupes américaines lors de la Première Guerre mondiale. ©Electre 2020

Résumé : L'émission "C'est pas sorcier" nous explique le phénomène de la grippe aviaire et de la grippe saisonnière.

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