Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pool last Friday afternoon, its record stood at 1-1 and it was hungry for a win to start its season out right. But as things turned out, not even a two-week training trip to Florida could help the tanned Dartmouth flotilla, as the Harvard aquawomen overcame the Bangkok flu and reading period doldrums to prevail...
...flue epidemic is not confined to the New England region. The Disease Control Center in Atlanta reports that all 121 cities it surveyed nationwide reported epidemic outbreaks of the Bangkok...
...strain of influenza, Bangkok A, is similar to the Hong Kong flu and shares essentially the same symptoms-- coughing, chills, body aches, headaches and a low fever. Because of its relation to the Hong Kong flu, most people have developed some immunity to the Bangkok A strain, Wacker said...
...Bangkok flue reached epidemic proportions in Massachusetts by Thanksgiving, health officials said. An epidemic is determined by 10 per cent absenteeism in schools and industry. Absenteeism in Massachusetts has been around 15 per cent since the end of November...
That freedom could be savored for only a moment. After a journey to meet with Asian mystics in India and Ceylon, death came in Bangkok, where Merton, padding about in his room, was electrocuted by a faulty fan. The words- and they were a torrent within that vow of silence - are undying...