Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a flu epidemic hit Georgia in 1938, it felled the only available white doctor in Jasper and Putnam counties, left hundreds of his rural patients with one hard-to-swallow recourse. They had to call on gentle Dr. Frederick D. Funderburg, a Negro physician. Working virtually around the clock, Dr. Funderburg attended as many as 60 white patients a day, succeeded in checking the epidemic...
Hedy Lamarr collapsed on a Hollywood set, went home with flu...
...Cleveland's high schools, about one in ten of the teachers were laid low by flu. In at least five, classes hardly missed a recitation last week. The teachers' places had been taken by a posse of students. At Lincoln High the 17-year-old football captain taught English and gym. Pretty Stella Bymakos stepped to the head of English 10B, and a scholar muttered: "Why couldn't it have been this week instead of last that I had to stay after school...
Stella and her fellow substitutes at Lincoln are members of the Future Teachers of America, who try to get their hands in by teaching at least one class every two weeks. They rarely get such a chance as Cleveland's flu gave them. Said Lincoln's principal: "Best relief pitchers ever sent to the mound...
Obviously, the true figure was far higher (example: in Oregon, only 45 cases were reported to the state health officer, but estimates based on school and job absenteeism put the number of flu victims at something over...