Pacific islands which escaped the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic and their subsequent mortality experiences

Epidemiology and Infection
G Dennis Shanks, John Brundage

Abstract

Very few Pacific islands escaped the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. Subsequent influenza epidemics in the established colonial outposts of American Samoa and New Caledonia infected many but killed very few persons whereas the extraordinarily isolated Niue, Rotuma, Jaliut and Yule islands experienced high mortality influenza epidemics (>3% of population) following 1918. These dichotomous outcomes indicate that previous influenza exposure and degree of epidemiological isolation were important mortality risk factors during influenza epidemics on Pacific islands.

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Citations

Jun 2, 2015·Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease·G Dennis Shanks
Nov 29, 2013·American Journal of Epidemiology·G Dennis ShanksJohn F Brundage
May 18, 2016·The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene·G Dennis Shanks
Sep 10, 2016·Epidemiology and Infection·B S PenmanG D Shanks
Oct 3, 2018·Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease·G Dennis Shanks
Oct 24, 2018·Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology·Kirsty R ShortCarolien E van de Sandt

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