St Petersburg, "The Recent Pandemic of Influenza: its place of origin and mode of spread.
The Army Medical Report favoured the view that the birthplace of this pandemic in the autumn of 1889 was an extensive region occupied by nomadic tribes in the northern part of the Kirghiz Steppe.
The moral effect of such a great pandemic plague can be readily surmised.
In the course of the succeeding half century this epidemic became pandemic and spread over all the inhabited earth.
It is by numerous facts of this description that we are compelled to remove the disease from the category of endemic and even epidemic diseases, and relegate it, along with influenza, to that of pandemic affections.
The evidence that the great epidemics of influenza are due to some general and pandemic influence is conclusive.
The next upswing puts the number of reported cases in the thousands, and three months after that, it reaches real pandemic proportions and decimates the entire human population of Darkover.
When we help African countries feed their people and care for the sick, it's the right thing to do, and it prevents the next pandemic from reaching our shores.
Indigency, like typhus, was a pandemic which must ultimately respond to an antitoxin.
Some such explanation is required to account for the periodical occurrence of epidemic and pandemic diffusions starting from an endemic centre.
Like cholera and plague, influenza reappeared in the last quarter of the 19th century, after an interval of many years, in epidemic or rather pandemic form.
