Leyton & Leytonstone
Historical Society
First World War stories from St Mary’s Leyton churchyard
Albert Edward Austin (1895-1918) continued
Definitions :
Aerosols: very small airborne droplets.
Bronchopneumonia : infection of the lungs by flu virus. The immune response to this causes lungs to fill with liquid with a consequent loss of lung air space necessary to breathe.
Cytokine: a broad category of small proteins that are important in cell signaling - they are released by cells and affect the behaviour of other cells, and sometimes the releasing cell itself.
DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid - a molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses.
Pandemic: an epidemic covering wide geographical regions and affecting large populations.
RNA: Ribonucleic acid - a ubiquitous family of large biological molecules that perform multiple vital roles in the coding, decoding, regulation, and expression of genes.
Virion: a complete viral particle, consisting of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein shell and constituting the infective form of a virus.
References :
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
RAF Digby web site
The Western Front Association web site
Free Birth, Marriage, Deaths (BMD)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Vaccine Vol 23 (2005) 940–945
1918 influenza: The Mother of All Pandemics. Jeffery K.Taubenberger & David M. Morens
The pages on this website about Albert Edward Austin were researched and written by Barbara Durack