THE CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ASIAN INFLUENZA

Abstract

Article1 September 1958THE CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ASIAN INFLUENZAFRED M. DAVENPORT, M.D., ALBERT V. HENNESSY, M.D.FRED M. DAVENPORT, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, ALBERT V. HENNESSY, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-49-3-493 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn February, 1957, viruses belonging to a previously unrecognized family of influenza A strains emerged from North China and within four months were disseminated throughout the globe.1, 2 The seeding of the world's population by what is now called Asian influenza was followed at various intervals by sharp outbreaks associated with a high attack rate.A major antigenic rearrangement, resulting in the appearance of another family of strains, is not a new phenomenon. With the passage of time, four successive shifts have occurred, followed, respectively, by the four successive periods of prevalence of swinelike, A, A-prime, and now Asian strains....Bibliography1. MeyerHillemanMiesseCrawfordBankhead MHMRMLIPAS: New antigenic variant in Far East influenza epidemic, Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. and Med. 95: 609, 1957. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Dunn FL: Pandemic influenza in 1957, J. A. M. A. 166: 140, 1958. Google Scholar3. CollinsLehmann SDJ: Trends and epidemics of influenza and pneumonia, Pub. Health Rep. 66: 1487, 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. Francis T: Influenza: the newe acquayantance, Ann. Int. Med. 39: 203, 1953. LinkGoogle Scholar5. Alomia A: Personal communication. Google Scholar6. ValenzuelaHorwitzRistoriBaccardoBorgonoBertin GACHJJ: Symposium on the epidemic of influenza in the City of Santiago. 1. Epidemiologic aspects and methods of control, Rev. méd. de Chile, in press, 1958. Google Scholar7. : Observations on the epidemic of Asian influenza in Santiago and Concepcion, Chile during July and August, 1957, J. A. M. A., in press. Google Scholar8. KraljevicPerroniSesnicVellalobooBorgonoPearsonSalcedo RJRMJEM: Symposium on the epidemic of influenza in the City of Santiago; clinical aspects of influenza and its complications in adults, Rev. méd. de Chile, in press, 1958. MedlineGoogle Scholar9. Collins SD: Age and sex incidence of influenza in the epidemic of 1943-44 with comparative data for preceding outbreaks, Pub. Health Rep. 59: 1483, 1944. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar10. MulderMasurel JN: Pre-epidemic antibody against 1957 strain of Asiatic influenza, Lancet 1: 810 (Apr. 19) 1958. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar11. DavenportHennessyFrancis FMAVT: Influence of primary antigenic experience upon the development of a broad immunity to influenza, Tr. A. Am. Physicians 70: 81, 1957. MedlineGoogle Scholar12. Davenport FM: Role of the Commission on Influenza. Studies of epidemiology and prevention, Pub. Health Rep. 73: 133, 1958. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar13. Salk JE: An interpretation of the significance of influenza virus variation for the development of an effective vaccine, Bull. New York Acad. Med. 28: 748, 1952. MedlineGoogle Scholar14. DavenportHennessy FMAV: Prevention of influenza in childhood by vaccination; principles, problems, and progress, in Symposium on viral infections in infancy and childhood, Bull. New York Acad. Med., in press, 1958. Google Scholar15. DavenportStuart-HarrisHennessyFrancis FMCHAVT: Epidemiology of influenza; comparative serologic observations in England and the United States, Lancet 2: 469 (Sept. 3) 1955. CrossrefGoogle Scholar16. BlaskovicRathova DV: Influenza virus A, A-prime, B, C, and Shope, Iowa 15 antibody titers in populations of Czechoslovakia, Epidem. Mikro., Immunol., Czechoslovakia 5: 113, 1956. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Ann Arbor, Michigan*From the Symposium on Influenza, presented at the Thirty-ninth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 28, 1958.From the Department of Epidemiology and Virus Laboratory, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.Certain of these studies were conducted under the auspices of the Commission on Influenza, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, Office of the Surgeon General, United States Army, Washington, D. C.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Fred M. Davenport, M.D., Virus Laboratory, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byHypotheses of Antigenic ShiftInfluenza VirusesInfluenzaInfluenza VirusesAntigenic memory to influenza A viruses in man determined by monovalent vaccines.Antigenic, Adaptive and Adsorptive Variants of the Influenza a HemagglutininInfluenza VirusesOn the Origin of Pandemic Influenza VirusesLack of Knowledge VersusThe Influenza VirusesGrippeSerological epidemiological studies with influenza A virusesDie InfluenzaschutzimpfungHI-ANTIBODIES IN FERRETS CROSS-INFECTED WITH DISTANTLY RELATED INFLUENZA VIRUSESOn The Strain Specificity Of The Antibody Response In Influenza A, as Measured by Complement Fixation Using Purified Antigens, And Its Relation To In Ovo Neutralizing AntibodiesSTUDY IN THE EFFICIENCY OF VACCINATION AGAINST INFLUENZA IN TWO EMPLOYMENT GROUPS IN MELBOURNE IN 1959InfluenzaANTIBODY RESPONSE IN MAN TO TWO DOSES OF POLYVALENT INFLUENZA VIRUS VACCINEAsian Influenza — Retrospect and Prospect 1 September 1958Volume 49, Issue 3Page: 493-501KeywordsAntigensArmed forcesClinical epidemiologyEpidemiologyPathogensPrevention, policy, and public healthResearch laboratoriesSurgeons Issue Published: 1 September 1958 PDF downloadLoading ...