Word: cough
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Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria, polio. One by one in this century the scourges of youth have fallen before the marvel of vaccines. But there has been no similar victory against the last of childhood's common infectious diseases: chickenpox, or as it is known medically, varicella. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the virus-caused illness strikes about 3 million youngsters each year, approximately as many children as there are babies born...
Symptoms of the illness, which include chest congestion, high fever, muscle aches and a cough, last from a week to 10 days, said Dr. Sholem Postel, chief of professional services...
...primary argument put forth in defense of Harvard funding for ROTC has been one of finances. Harvard receives more in the form of scholarship money than it would spend in supporting ROTC. This scholarship aid may be cut off if Harvard doesn't cough up the money for MIT. Yet the University does not seem to have pursued other ways of preserving this student and from ROTC. The most obvious solution would be for the military to fund its own programs. At a time when the Federal commitment to higher education is declining, student aid programs are being...
Influenza, as opposed to the more common flu is marked by chills, high fever, muscle aching, headache and a cough, Postel said, adding, "the flu is more like a cold--a sore throat and stuffy nose...
...appears to have been-small cough behind back of the hand-a family affair. In the pre-Reagan-Thatcher days, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Jay, and his wife Margaret were the toast of the New York-Washington social circuit. Then came Mrs. Jay's more or less public affair with Watergate Heavyweight Carl Bernstein, subsequently chronicled with gusto by his former wife Nora Ephron, 42, in the bestselling Heartburn. Now it develops that while Ephron was turning to a novel to get satisfaction, Jay was turning elsewhere. Last week, Jane Tustian, 33, live-in nanny...