Influenza Chapter 23 Summary

In chapter 23 it talks about many physicians and laboratories who studied and tried their hardest to figure out a solution to this enormous influenza issue. The chapter starts off with laboratories everywhere focusing on the influenza. In britain everyone in almroth wright’s worked on it, especially alexander fleming. Germany, italy, and russia all searched for an answer. By fall of 1918 research had been cut and the focus was only on war, so researchers focused on poison gas and how to fight against it, preventing infection of wounds , also ways to prevent diseases such as trench fever which is not serious but had already tooken troops. The wars took technicians and young researchers. During this time laboratories in Europe and United States …show more content…
Tammany Hall appointed Copeland he had no believe in modern medicine. This public health department was the best. It developed a procedure that was simple and could be done within 30 minutes this meant immediate use of the serum treatment. On September 15 in New York City the first influenza death occurred the disease came from Army, Navy bases. While this broke out Copeland said “ prepared to compel patients who may be a menace to the community hospitals.” This meant the physicians must contain this and stop the influenza from spreading by taking all of the patients who are sick to one location. Parks and Anna William became vaccine experts however they have no advice to give on finding a cure. but they still swabbed throats and nasal passages of sick people. Later on in the book it talks about how Anna William does an influenza autopsy on a dead body. Once again William swabbed the body that was infected and her and parks used all the swabings and tests to study them, awaiting an