Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When questioned as to the exact nature of the infections, Dr. Bock said that "We call it the flu because we don't have anything better to call it." Most of the illnesses are caused by viruses, he said...
According to Rockefeller Foundation researchers, this year's flu is less mild than in the 1943 epidemic. It makes people "pretty sick." The Army's new flu vaccine (which cuts cases 75%) will soon be available to civilians. Cost of a shot: around...
...there a new flu epidemic in the U.S.? There are a lot of sniffles and backaches. No, said the U.S. Public Health Service, no epidemic yet-but there is a definite "increase." Some evidence...
...York City has slightly more flu than last year; upstate New York has alot more...
...days and broken nights of George Elliott MacKinnon, now 60, he had brought hundreds -thousands-of children into life. Many a Finnish logger had come to his office in little (pop. 452) Prentice, Wis. to be patched up after a knife fight. There had been fevers, croups, contagions, the flu epidemic of 1919, when Doc was out on the drifted roads for eight subzero days & nights, .with a steaming horse pulling his sleigh and a fresh animal trotting behind. On his lonely rides Doc had worn out the sleigh, a buggy, a snowmobile, a Chewy, a Star and 15 Fords...