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1918 lnfluenza Pandemic: New Zealand Fatalities In 1917 and early 1918, the H1N1 strain of influenza swept the world, reaching New Zealand in early summer. It was carried home by soldiers returning from Europe at the end of the First World War. Over 8,000 New Zealanders died. The influenza epidemic became New Zealand’s forgotten disaster, as people tried to forget the horror of the First World...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system mainly affecting the motor system. Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are movement-related; these include shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement and difficulty with walking and gait. Later, thinking and behavioral problems may arise, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stag...
Please add profiles for those who have contributed to our medical knowledge or life through their discoveries or inventions.== Medical scientists conduct research with the aim of improving human health. They study the various diseases that afflict human beings, their causes, and how they can be prevented and treated. Medical and not directly medical research adds to the existing base of scienti...
Notables with disabilitiesDefinition from the WHO: Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in inv...
ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. A-myo-trophic comes from the Greek language. "A" means no. "Myo" refers to muscle, and "Trophic" means nourishment – "No muscle nourishment." When a muscle has no nourishment, it "atrophies" or wastes away. "Lateral" identifies the areas in a person's spin...
Polio Survivors:= ==This project is for those who SURVIVED polio.==If they Died from Polio or a complication of Polio, please add them to: People Who Died from Polio (Polio) in the Cause of Death Portal Alternate Names: polio, poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis Tags : polio, poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, handicaps, paralysis, bone deformities, abortive poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis, often c...
Portal to Geni Project dedicated to medically related projects NO PROFILES please - Add profiles to the projects listed below instead This is an entree to indexed medically related projects on genealogy Geni, please add yours. Feel free to add headings, sub projects & resources. Please add Related projects & tags as needed. If you don’t find a heading that fits or you have a quest...
1918 Influenza Pandemic - Africa: Survivors=The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the world's population—making it ...
Please add projects & index “Schools” that DO NOT have college or university in their name.== This is for PROJECTS that cover ALL types of educational sources for medical/healthcare professions & occupations that DO NOT have college or university in their name. * This can include, but is not limited to: Schools for physicians, chiropractors, veterinarians, dentists, pharmacists, all nursing occ...
genealogy consists of the subjects list below, most from this Wikipedia search, but also includes the causes of death (CODs) for our ancestors and relatives, for example Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and paralysis.* Genetic analysis* Genealogy tourism* Medical family history or Family history (medicine)* Genetic genealogy* Hippocrates' legendary genealogy* Consanguine marriage===additions===* ...
1918 Influenza Pandemic - Norway: Survivors=Please add to this project any profiles of those who were infected but survived the 'Spanish Flu' pandemic of 1918 To participate in any project- you do need to first be a collaborator - so please join the project using the request link under "actions" at the top right of the page. Visit Geni Wikitext, Unicode and images which gives a great deal of as...