Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...democracy, statesmen go on vacation, break a leg, get the flu and even retire or die without creating more than a mild flurry of editorial comments or oratorical farewells. But Communist leaders in their world behind the Iron Curtain fare differently. Because so little information about their lives is allowed to leak out, Red bigwigs can scarcely go away for a country weekend without creating a storm of speculation-on either side of the Curtain-that they have been purged, exiled or demoted in disgrace...
...Copenhagen, Denmark's King Frederik IX took the day off with a touch of lumbago. The rest of the family was feeling poorly, too. Queen Ingrid had the flu, and the three little princesses had chicken...
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...blood-making cells, chemicals outside the body (industrial wastes, gasoline fumes), the emotions (which upset the body's metabolism), and viruses. Dr. Erf had a suggestion for research: since leukemia victims have improved after having virus diseases, give them a mild strain of virus diseases like chickenpox or flu...
Apparently some things have not changed in 450 years. In "Whose Flu?" you report that the French call the current epidemic la grippe Italienne, while Italians retort by calling it influenza Francese [TIME...