ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2019
Epidemiological Isolation as an Infection Mortality Risk Factor in U.S. Soldiers from Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Why Did Black Soldiers Historically Have More Pneumonia Than White Soldiers in the U.S. Army?The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- A Historical Review of Military Medical Strategies for Fighting Infectious Diseases: From Battlefields to Global Health.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Epidemiological Isolation May Explain Differences in Historical Respiratory Infectious Disease Mortality.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2021Article
- Rural and Urban Differences in COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2021Article
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Abstract
It remains uncertain why most infectious disease mortalities disappeared before modern medical interventions. Historical epidemiology using prospectively collected U.S. Army data from the Civil War (1860-1861), Spanish-American War (1898-1899), and First World War (1917-1918) suggests that epidemiological isolation was a major mortality risk factor for soldiers. Morbidity and mortality due to common infections decreased progressively from 1860 to 1918, except for influenza during the 1918 pandemic. Adult measles or mumps infections are indicative of isolated rural populations and correlated with disease mortality by U.S. state. Experiencing infections before adulthood may equip the immune system to better resist infections and decrease mortality rates.
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