RT Journal
T1 A recrudescence of influenza.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD January 14
VO XXXII
IS 2
SP 86
OP 87
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450290036008
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450290036008
AB According to a Washington dispatch of January 9, "Surgeon-General Wyman, of the Marine-Hospital service, says that the [present influenza] epidemic started in Turkey and Asia Minor about the middle of November, and has been spreading westward ever since, following the established lines of travel and being most severe where the population is most dense." It is further added that "Dr. Wyman is now taking measures to obtain information as to the character, extent and treatment of the disease in foreign countries, as well as in the United States, and special observations are being made as to its origin and means of contagion."Epidemiologists generally will welcome this promised assistance in the study of a disease, which though not usually the cause of death per se, is the contributing cause of a greatly increased mortality from the principal causes of death whenever it appears as an epidemic.If, however, this study