Volume 15, Number 10—October 2009

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Excess Deaths and Immunoprotection during 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic, Taiwan

Ying-Hen Hsieh 

Author affiliation: China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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Figure 1. Monthly all-cause and excess death rates, Taiwan, July 1916 through June 1922. Monthly averages for excess deaths exclude those of the pandemic years 1918 and 1920. Bars indicate excess deaths per 100,000 population during the pandemic months of November–December 1918 and January–February 1920.

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