Word: flu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flu cases at Harvard are on the decrease despite rising national totals, reports Stillman Infirmary. Of 45 students suffering from flu and serious colds, more than half have been discharged in the last two days. And the Infirmary expected that fewer and fewer cases would be reported...
Hygiene's widespread precautionary system has prevented the spread of any major epidemic since the great flu rage of 1918. The only recent flare-up was another rash of influenza that was quickly scotched two years ago. In '48 a state-subsidized chest x-ray program found only 3 cases of active tuberculosis out of 7.563 pictures, well below the national average...
...Frank has been telling colleagues about his latest discovery: two strains of the same species can interbreed and produce offspring according to Mendelian law. On its face, this does not promise much relief for the patient with a fever and a bad cough as the 1952-53 flu season gets under way. But, says Burnet, "of all virus diseases, influenza is probably the one in which mutational changes in the virus are of greatest human importance." It is his theory that the 1918-19 outbreak happened because the virus became, by mutation, more violent. Then this form died...
...boat through graduation, but number four man. Link Boyden, has been out all vacation with a back injury and has only just started on the machines again this week. Larry Brownell, last year's freshman stroke, and Kim Whiting have also missed out on the vacation conditioning because of flu attacks...
Reichert, ill with the flu, left his bed to help. At police headquarters he turned the keys of his car over to a policeman, "in case something happens to me." In an old air-raid shelter near by, Reichert, assisted by two cops, gingerly opened the parcel and took out Volume L-Z of a standard German encyclopedia. "Hmm," wondered a cop, "why would anyone send the Chancellor an encyclopedia?" A moment later, a blinding flash hurled him to the wall; two hours later, Reichert was dead from the bomb meant for Chancellor Adenauer...