Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other chaotic days, on January 27, 1947 to be precise, the editorial stated bluntly that the world stood "on the threshold of another disastrous flu pandemic," adding with grim fortitude that "the storm signals are flying." And though it is galling to do so, admitted it must be that now, a year later, Harvard is healthier than ever. The editorial decried "pointing with pride at the empty beds in Stillman," but today let us point at them with pride, and commiserate only those suffering from an overdose of benzedrine...
Pankey, aggressive like the flu virus, and Skinner, inexperienced but good when he is on, have been like adrenalin to the rangy quintet. Slow hoofed Gabler has set fire to fast-break plays by his quick deceptive passing...
First came Q fever (so called because it was identified in Queensland, Australia, in 1935), a distant and comparatively harmless relative of typhus. Its victims, usually stockyard or dairy workers, develop flu-like symptoms. By week's end 116 cases had been reported...
...other disease puzzled the Los Angeles Health Department, which blamed it on virus X (so called because its nature is unknown). Its victims commonly suffer gastrointestinal upsets, occasionally inflammation of the nose and throat, and flu-like general aches & pains. Last week, the Los Angeles area had 200,000 victims of virus X. Doctors said there was no connection between virus X and either Q fever or ordinary flu, advised patients: "Call a doctor...
...talk about curing or preventing colds-even the type of common cold caused by V14A. Dr. Topping (who developed the first effective serum for Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1940) would say only that a vaccine is "a possibility, not a probability." (It took ten years to develop a flu vaccine after the flu virus was isolated in 1933.) As a final gloomy thought, Dr. Topping feared that even if a vaccine is developed, it will give immunity for only a very short time, and, of course, against only one type of cold...