Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors were on the alert against flu. It had struck promptly after World War I, killing 500,000 in the U.S. within four months, and another postwar epidemic may be due. But there will be no such toll as last time: a new Army-tested vaccine (TIME, April 3, 1944) is now available to civilians...
...Michigan, the vaccine is made by growing influenza virus in fertile hens' eggs, then killing the virus. The dead virus, injected under the skin, creates protective antibodies. A single small injection (one cubic centimeter) usually gives a year's immunity against the two major types of flu, A and B. But it is strictly a preventive. Inoculation does not help after exposure to the disease...
...hospital competing against hospital. Bad guesses landed some of the plans in hot water. New York City's unit unthinkingly gave sweeping maternity benefits, soon found its roster swamped with young mothers who insisted on staying in the hospital a free full three weeks. In 1938, a flu epidemic finally put the unit...
...cardinals were too ill to come to Rome; two more lay abed in Rome with flu. Cardinal Mindszenty, who arrived late from Budapest, was delayed by the Russians, would not have reached Rome at all but for a plane lent by the U.S. military mission in Hungary...
With a new flu season, Dr. Funderburg was not the only Negro who was overcoming prejudice with skill. Many a white Southerner, unable to get his regular doctor, was turning to a Negro for help...