Epidemic diffusion processes in a system of U.S. military camps: transfer diffusion and the spread of typhoid fever in the Spanish-American War, 1898.

The writers analyze the geographical transmission of a typhoid fever epidemic in the makeshift encampments of a mobilized army in 1898 in the U.S. war with Spain. They contend that the spread of typhoid was underpinned by a temporally ordered sequence of diffusion processes in which each process wa...

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Published in:	Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 91; no. 1; pp. 71 - 92
Main Authors:	Smallman-Raynor, Matthew, Cliff, Andrew D.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd March 2001
Subjects:	Typhoid fever Medical geography History of epidemics Military training camps Health Spanish-American War, 1898 United States
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