Word: flu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University Health Services will convert the second floor lounge rooms of the Freshman Union into infirmary wards for the care of Asian Flu victims by late this afternoon, Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth announced last night. Farnsworth also called for volunteers to fill "the urgent need for help in caring for students who are ill with acute respiratory infections...
...Asian flu by last week had attacked an estimated 400,000 people in the U.S. Though manufacturers were pouring out vaccine far faster than expected (3,700,000 doses last week), there was a serious snarl over who was to get the inoculations and when. With only voluntary priorities suggested by Washington, most of the vaccine (which often caused a slight feverish reaction) so far seemed to have been sold to anyone who went after it early and energetically enough, notably football teams and business concerns...
...were like separate, spontaneous grass fires. Perhaps because of crowded living conditions, Negroes in the South seemed especially susceptible. Climate made no difference. One of the states hardest hit, after bottomland Mississippi (with 100,000 cases), was mile-high Colorado, where health officers saw no hope of checking the flu's ravages before 10% of the population has had it. In all the U.S. only 16 deaths were so far attributed to complications of the disease (mostly pneumonia...
...return of Hedreen will allow Munro to shift Captain Jim Shue back to inside right, a spot handled until now by Robin Magowan, who has been out this week with flu. "Hedreen is a center forward by nature," Munro said yesterday, "and Shue naturally belongs at inside right...
Shue, who nearly missed the season opener because of flu, may be inactive today, Munro said. In that case, Barry Russman will see action, he said. Shue was credited with providing much of the drive that kept the powerful Tufts squad to a pair of goals...