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Corporate Authors:
Communicable Disease Center (U.S.) ; United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public Health Service. ; United States. Health Services and Mental Health Administration.
Communicable Disease Center (U.S.) ; United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public Health Service. ; United States. Health Services and Mental Health Administration. Less -
Description:
The most dramatic epidemiological event of 1968 was the pandemic of Hong Kong influenza. In the United States the infection was introduced from the Pacific during September. Scattered outbreaks and sporadic cases were identified with increasing frequency thereafter. Mortality for pneumonia-influenza rose above the epidemic threshold during the week ending December 7, 1968. A sharp nationwide epidemic ensued. Mortality peaked during the second week of January 1969. The total excess mortality during the epidemic from all causes in 122 cities was 19,700 deaths. This Hong Kong influenza epidemic was the most severe since the previous pandemic of Asian influenza in 1957-58 when excess mortality in the same cities was 26,900 deaths.
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Communicable Diseases
Communicable Diseases/epidemiology
Disease Notification
Mortality
Public Health Surveillance

Series:
Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 17, no. 53 ; National Notifiable Diseases: Infectious Annual Tables 1968
Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 17, no. 53 ; National Notifiable Diseases: Infectious Annual Tables 1968 Less -
Document Type:
Journal Issue
Genre:
Annual Reports
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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