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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Publicado en:Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 91; no. 1; pp. 71 - 92
Autores principales: Smallman-Raynor, Matthew, Cliff, Andrew D.
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd March 2001
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