Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Charles de Gaulle was laid up with flu-described as "sharp but not serious...
Simultaneously down with flu at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital were the Sage of Emporia & wife, the William Allen Whites. They hoped to leave soon for Santa Fe and Estes Park, Cob. to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at the scenes of their honeymoon. Said the Sage, now 75: "The last time, I was a 25-year-old editorial writer. . . . Sallie was a 22-year-old schoolteacher. We had a railroad pass from the paper." Said Mrs. White, commenting on the separate rooms which kept them from nurse-forbidden talk: "You might think we'd be talked out after...
...Unlike flu or a cold, pneumonitis entails inflammation of the lungs; hence it can often be distinguished only by X-ray photographs. And unlike pneumonia, no bacterial cause can be found. In fact, nothing at all is known about its cause (some doctors think it may be not one but a group of related diseases). Probable cause is a virus, but researchers haven't identified it. Since doctors don't know the cause of pneumonitis, they know little about its treatment...
Where has the disease been all these years? First vague hints of its existence go back to 1872, and some doctors suspect it was prevalent though unidentified before the great flu epidemic of 1918. But pneumonitis first emerged in its present form as an epidemic in Honolulu...
...forms of encephalitis have been discovered: 1) equine encephalitis, a horse disease, which may be transmitted to human beings by mosquitoes; 2) St. Louis encephalitis, named after the epidemics which raged in St. Louis in 1933 and again in 1937. Although they first appeared together, flu has no direct connection with encephalitis; it may, of course, weaken resistance to the nerve disease...