Influenza Pandemics and Tuberculosis Mortality in 1889 and 1918: Analysis of Historical Data from Switzerland.

Tuberculosis (TB) mortality declined in the northern hemisphere over the last 200 years, but peaked during the Russian (1889) and the Spanish (1918) influenza pandemics. We studied the impact of these two pandemics on TB mortality.We retrieved historic data from mortality registers for the city of B...

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Main Authors: Kathrin Zürcher, Marcel Zwahlen, Marie Ballif, Hans L Rieder, Matthias Egger, Lukas Fenner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5051959?pdf=render