Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia, Mo., where there was a ban on student gatherings because of a flu epidemic, the Kansas-Missouri game (won by Kansas, 48-to-38) was attended by sportswriters, coaches, officials, substitutes...
...pace of work had begun to tell on other Ministers. John Strachey (Food) had been down with flu. Sir Stafford Cripps (Trade) had been out with a chill. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was nursing his high blood pressure. At a cocktail party a friend told him that he looked well. Said Bevin: "I feel worse than I look." Clem Attlee, an early riser, toiled to the Churchillian hour of 2:30 a.m. to handle the extra work...
...seriously added to Europe's manifold miseries. Icy blasts from a high pressure area over Scandinavia struck through crumbling walls and patched clothes. Ice creaked in Venice's lagoons, and gondolas carried snowy canopies. Sicilian roads were blocked by snow. In Stockholm, 100,000 people had the flu, including Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf...
Chief of the investigation is pink-cheeked Dr. Christopher Howard Andrewes, who in 1933 discovered that ferrets could be infected with influenza, thereby paving the way for experiments which produced a flu vaccine. The common cold is different: only chimpanzees and human beings catch it. Chimpanzees are scarce and costly. Dr. Andrewes decided to call for human volunteers...
...Hygiene Department is justified in withholding vaccinations, it cannot afford to point with pride at the empty beds in Stillman and dismiss the problem. If the charts are to be believed, a world already weakened by war stands on the threshold of another disastrous flu pandemic. The policy of the University medical men must be one of watchful waiting. They should decide now how best they could vaccinate men wholesale in case of emergency. They should assure ready access to stocks of vaccine, if and when an epidemic strikes. The storm signals are flying; the Hygiene Department must batten...