2022-01-16 16:40:02
Spanish/Covid Flu: Playbook or History Repeating Itself?
6. Treatment (II)Sept. 2018 [During 1918 – 1919] researchers and health workers in the
United States and Europe were confidently
devising vaccines and immunising hundreds of thousands of people in what amounted to a medical experiment on the grandest scale.A few vaccines to prevent other diseases were available at the time -- smallpox vaccine had, of course, been used for more than 100 years; Louis Pasteur had developed rabies vaccine for post-exposure prophylaxis after an encounter with a rabid animal; typhoid fever vaccines had been developed. Diphtheria antitoxin -- a medication made from the blood of previously infected animals -- had been used for treatment since the late 1800's; an early form of a diphtheria vaccine had been used; and experimental cholera vaccines had been developed. Almroth Wright had tested a
whole-cell pneumococcal vaccine in South African gold miners in 1911. Manufacturers had developed and sold various mixed heat-killed bacterial stock vaccines of dubious usefulness.
By October 2, 1918, William H. Park, MD, head bacteriologist of the New York City Health Department, was working on a Pfeiffer's bacteria
influenza vaccine. In November, the Newark Evening News reported that 39,000 doses of Leary-Park influenza vaccine had been prepared and that most doses were used. (Timothy Leary was a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.) "...the average person need have no fear of the results of the vaccine.
Neurotic and rheumatic individuals, however, appear to be sensitive to the vaccine, while children take it with less disturbance than adults"
By December 13, 1918, … vaccines made from Pfeiffer's bacilli appeared to have no effect on influenza prevention. Rather, ... a mixed bacterial vaccine (
streptococcal, pneumococcal, staphylococcal, and Pfeiffer's bacilli) developed by E.C. Rosenow at the Mayo Foundation
was an effective preventive. Well more than 500,000 doses of Rosenow vaccine were produced (Eyler, 2009). [
FN: Vaccination was made compulsory at this time in the US.]
University of Pittsburgh, Tulane University, and even private physicians were making their own vaccines. Convalescent serum was also used (Boston Post, January 6, 1919; Robertson & Koehler, 1918.)
Based on ...newspaper and medical journal articles from the time, it is clear that
many hundreds of thousands, if not a million or more, doses of vaccines were produced during the pandemic years.
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2016In 1918, effective vaccines and antibiotics to prevent influenza and treat secondary bacterial pneumonia were still decades away.
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Sept. 2011There were no treatments against the flu and no antibiotics to treat complications such as pneumonia.
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Sept. 2008The small array of treatments [in Spain] prescribed included symptomatic therapy with salicilates and quinine and codeine for cough. For persons who developed pneumonia, the therapeutic options were even fewer and included intramuscular or intravenous treatment with silver or platinum colloid solutions, digitalis, alcamphor oil, or adrenaline. Bleeding was often used. Some
experimental vaccines were also tried, notably those including mixtures of pneumococci, streptococci, and Pfeiffer bacillus (
Haemophilus influenzae.)
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