Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measlesOpie, Eugene L. (Eugene Lindsay)
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Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measles
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DATES │ MEASLES │ PNEUMONIA FOLLOWING
│ │ MEASLES
───────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────────────────
Sept. 11 to 17 │ 18│ 0
Sept. 18 to 24 │ 20│ 0
Sept. 25 to Oct. 1 │ 74│ 0
Oct. 2 to 8 │ 143│ 13
Oct. 9 to 15 │ 178│ 9
Oct. 16 to 22 │ 158│ 16
Oct. 28 to 29 │ 100│ 6
Oct. 30 to Nov. 5 │ 56│ 3
Nov. 6 to 12 │ 38│ 4
Nov. 13 to 19 │ 23│ 1
Nov. 20 to 26 │ 29│ 1
Nov. 27 to Dec. 3 │ 22│ 1
Dec. 4 to 10 │ 8│ 1
Dec. 11 │ 0│ 1
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Pneumonia following measles began to appear on October 5, and within the
week following 16 cases occurred. An equal number of cases appeared each
week during about three weeks and fewer scattered cases occurred
throughout November and December. Table LVIII shows date of onset of
measles and measles pneumonia cases.
Chart 3 presents the occurrence of measles and of the pneumonia
following measles by weeks of onset compared with that of epidemic
influenza.
[Illustration:
Chart 3.—Shows the relation of the epidemic of measles to that of
influenza at Camp Pike, and the relations of the pneumonia following
measles to both measles and influenza. The large incomplete curve
represents influenza; the intermediate curve, measles; the small
curve, pneumonia following measles.
]
It will be noted from the overlapping of the two curves in Chart 3 that
a considerable portion of the measles cases appeared before the
influenza had subsided in Camp Pike. This occurrence of the two
epidemics at the same time makes it impossible to separate the parts
played by each disease in producing the pneumonias and other
complications following measles. Analysis of the chart, however, shows
that the pneumonia with measles occurred in large part during the first
half of the measles epidemic. This is of particular significance since
it was during this period that the effects of the influenza wave were
felt most severely.
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