Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flu's Round. Vaccination against flu, doctors agree, cannot do anybody much harm. But does it do any good? It worked during the flu epidemics of 1943 and 1945. But it was a flop in 1947, according to a study of students at the University of Chicago. Combined influenza A and B virus vaccine was injected into 790 students; another 1,230 students were not vaccinated. During the epidemic, exactly the same percentage of each group (9.5%) came down with flu. Severity of the attack was about the same in each group; 2.5% of the vaccinated...
What happened between epidemics? Could the virus that caused the flu have changed, while the vaccine did not? The researchers recommended development of a vaccine with wide enough range to hit, blunderbuss fashion, any flu virus that may turn...
Kenary, who had been feeling ill for several days, thought he might be contacting the flu, but doctors at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital diagnosed appendicitis and operated yesterday morning. He will be out for at least a month, and possibly for the remainder of the season...
John Rockwell dumped in 21 points for Harvard, but his contribution was entirely offensive. Bill Brady played a dogged floor game before fouling out midway through the second half. Lloyd Harper coached the squad in the absence of flu-ridden Bill Barclay...
This year the Hygiene Department reports a lower number of exam-time casualties than it can over remember. Flu is almost absent, and though the danger of an epidemic or a pandemic is always there, that is hardly the point. It seems that for some reason Stillman always has its greatest influx of customers during the last couple of weeks in January. Some of the unfortunate take too much benzedrine, others find the Infirmary the safest place to be during a final, but a larger number are real victims of the psychological pressure of examinations...