Word: burney
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...mutant Asian strain of flu virus has already caused "the most widespread influenza epidemic in 40 years," said Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service. His estimate: 15 million to 20 million cases in the U.S. since Sept.1. Though the peak of the first wave has passed, Dr. Burney urged prompt use of the vaccine now available to guard against a second wave early in 1958. ¶ Grants of $500,000 each to three universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh) were announced by the Rockefeller Foundation for training and research programs to prepare public health experts...
With an estimated 5,000,000 Asian flu cases already reported in the U.S., Surgeon General Leroy Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service predicted last week that the nation faces new epidemics in the next eight to ten weeks in areas not hitherto stricken. After that, he hoped, "we will be going down hill." So far, with nearly 400 deaths attributed to Asian flu and its complications, the death rate is a minute fraction...
Because the vaccine, containing 200 virus units per shot, has given protection to no more than 81% of those inoculated (in some tests, it is suspected, far fewer), Burney's advisers decided that it should be beefed up to 400 units per shot. Of the old vaccine, 45 million doses had been released by this week; November will see 27 million more produced. After that, double-strength vaccine will go on the market...
...recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service. The armed forces, on a separate allocation, were getting vaccine as fast as they could use it. Beyond that, the PHS planners' hope that manufacturers would funnel the vaccine to essential civilians was generally ignored. Last week Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney held a conclave of experts in Washington, issued another hopeful suggestion: that manufacturers would henceforth comply with allocation recommendations by state health departments...
...Though 26 million people in the U.S. may come down with Asian flu, and the disease can sweep coast to coast in a month's time, those who get it without immunization shots, Dr. Burney reemphasized, will have "a relatively mild illness with symptoms which are commonplace accompaniments of many everyday illnesses in our society." In short, Asian flu, though it beds most patients for four days, is not a deadly disease...